Now it's getting another underground claim to fame: a huge nuclear-waste disposal site.
However, Mr Kinghorn said problems arose with the Tyrone firm's arrangements at Ballyclare and also with a secondary disposal site a Cookstown landfill.
And anyway, most of that money went to establishing an excellent technical and scientific foundation for any deep geologic disposal site anywhere, especially for how to package and transport highly radioactive waste to wherever it will go.
Laws regarding the compulsory collection of animal carcasses from farms have also been relaxed where exceptional weather conditions make off-site disposal impossible.
Mr Hammond said the MoD would consult over the disposal of the site to try to "maximise local prosperity and jobs".
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The energy firm said it would continue to store waste on site until a deep geological disposal facility was made available - similar to the storages created in underground rock caverns in Finland.
The device was found Tuesday afternoon by a bomb disposal team that was checking out a construction site near the Hauptbahnhof, the central station.
Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste.
Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground disposal of high-level radioactive waste as some if it stays dangerous for 100, 000 years.
Decades of improper radioactive waste disposal earned Hanford the notorious distinction of being most contaminated nuclear site in the Western Hemisphere.
Constable Simon Crowcroft said if all the other branches of waste disposal were bunched together there, it would mean all waste going to one site.
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EarthFirst, John Stanton's firm, claims to be at "the forefront of alternative energy sources, " according to its Web site, but still gets most of its revenue from moneylosing waste-disposal and biodiesel-import businesses, and recently filed to allow Laurus Capital to sell 76 million shares, whose proceeds would be used to retire convertible debt held by Laurus.
But this could take a couple of months, so BP has plans to lower a massive dome over the leak site to suck oil from the seabed into vessels that can take it for safe disposal.
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