BRITAIN is in danger of becoming the nuclear dustbin of the world, says local MP David Chaytor.

He is "extremely concerned" that his government has agreed to accept radioactive fuel from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Bury North MP, Mr Chaytor is calling on ministers to host an international conference to draw up a worldwide policy on nuclear waste.

The fuel is about to be flown to Dounreay in the north of Scotland to be reprocessed. The Government says this is to stop the uranium falling into the wrong hands.

Mr Chaytor said: "Everyone understands that throughout the former Soviet Union there's a serious problem of unregulated nuclear waste.

"There's a growing black market in uranium and plutonium which is also vulnerable to terrorist attack, and it's right that the West takes a lead.

"But I am extremely concerned that Britain does not become the nuclear dustbin of the world and that we do not continue our reprocessing industry.

"If that's the way forward, we are locking ourselves into a dangerous cycle of producing more and more nuclear waste without knowing what to do with it."

Mr Chaytor is putting down a Commons motion calling on the Government to launch a public debate on the matter and to host an international conference.

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