Take an Underground train a few stops from the borough of Westminster, and life expectancy drops by 12 years.

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Last Wednesday's county council decision saw the authority's cabinet vote against progressing to the next stage of a process that would have seen studies take place in search of a suitable location for an underground nuclear dump.

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He also attempted to take a grand piano on the London Underground, and persuaded a crowd of tourists that Nelson's Column needed holding up.

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Good amusement is always welcome on public transport, and these prank signs have had London Underground commuters doing a second take.

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Under NWPA, DOE is required to permanently dispose of spent nuclear fuel (as well as defense HLW) in a deep underground repository, and to take physical control of the waste beginning in 1998.

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It has a key role in building the Channel Tunnel fast rail link and it is also a leading contender to take over the infrastructure contract for London Underground.

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Londoners do seem to have a close connection with the Underground - but most of the time they take it for granted.

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Still, while underground lines suffer a third of the outages as overhead ones, they take twice as long to repair.

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London Stansted airport is a 45-minute journey from the capital and getting to London Heathrow by the underground system can take 50 minutes from parts of the city.

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