LMP urges talks on nuclear waste storage

Opposition LMP is calling for broad consultations on the storage of radioactive waste in Hungary.

László Lóránt Keresztes, the party’s group leader, told an online press conference on Monday that LMP expects the political players involved in such talks to make their positions on the issue of nuclear waste disposal clear.

Keresztes, who called the storage of radioactive waste and spent fuel rods “one of the greatest challenges of the coming decades”, slammed the government for “its failure to address the issue” over the past ten years.

Referring to plans to build a radioactive waste repository in the Boda area, in southern Hungary, Keresztes said the village’s proximity to the city of Pecs ruled it out as a possible waste storage site and called on experts to find alternative locations. Also, the residents of a municipality chosen as the site of a nuclear waste repository should be granted the right to veto such decisions, he added.