"I commend HMRC and PSNI officers on discovering this underground fuel laundering plant, " he said.

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At the Pittsburgh G20 Summit in September 2009, President Barack Obama, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy exposed a new Iranian underground uranium enrichment plant near Qom.

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The 9.0 earthquake that struck two years ago appears to have severely damaged the foundations of the plant - creating large cracks in the underground walls that are supposed to keep the plant water tight.

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After this, excavation work can start to lay the foundations of the nuclear plant including two underground 3km tunnels for the cooling water.

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Councils in west Cumbria have expressed an interest in hosting an underground repository for waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

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If confirmed, the leak at the underground storage pool would be the third leak discovered at the plant since Saturday.

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FutureGen would be a near zero-emissions plant that converted coal into hydrogen, to power electric turbines, and carbon dioxide, to be pumped underground.

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