Extracts from the BBC1 program aired on 8th Oct. "In the New Year, councillors in Cumbria will decide whether to reject the option of building the store under the beautiful local countryside - or whether to agree to more work to find a geologically suitable site. No other region in Britain is now volunteering for such a controversial project. So what are the benefits and the risks that Cumbria has to weigh up? Chris Jackson reports for a special Inside Out" BBC documentary shows the presenter inspecting a repository in Finland. The presenter and his guide drove into the repository and descended over 4 kilometres to an "actual repository" tunnel. The reality of this tunnel is nothing like the accompanying animation video showing what a repository should look like. The reality is just a bare cave, rather than a structured, DRY and sealed compartment. Wellies and boots and deep puddles everywhere! An example circular hole where a canister would be placed had a significant amount of water in it. Whatever happened to a dry environment within non-permeable rock ? - - - - a pre-requite for a repository. Zero evidence of DRY conditions. Quite the opposite, any canister placed in the Finland repository would be immersed in water from day one. Is that what we can expect here in Cumbria ? Very significant amounts of water everywhere illustrates that a repository simply becomes "The path of least resistance" for water flow - - - - a fault line in the rock and a magnet for water circulation between surface rainfall and underground water circulating back to the surface. So, come on you government experts, what is it to be - - bare caves with water everywhere, or pristine dry and sealed caverns with zero water - - benefits paid now when there are zero problems, or meaningless benefits paid later when children are born with deformities, radiation linked diseases, and water supplies maybe far away from Cumbria (Manchester is supplied by Cumbria) become contaminated, and the Irish Sea is affected ? Anyone listening...

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