Spanish Protest against Proposed Nuclear Waste Storage

Siting the nuclear cemetery in Zarra would compromise the safety of the Valencians, said Juan Cotino, third vicepresident of Valencia's regional government earlier, in a reversal of the initially mild opposition to the ATC. Zarra could not satisfy the safety requirements for such a sensitive installation, he says. Most of the subsoil in the area ia a combination of clay and loam and could be geologically erratic in steep areas prone to landslides. But a delegate to the Madrid government claims that none of Cotino's present objections were put forward by the Valencian government when it originally opposed the ATC.