Scots indep. faces UK with nuke impasse: MP<\/p>\n
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A senior British MP has warned that it could take a \u00c5\u201cgeneration\u201d to remove the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s nuclear weapons from Scotland in case Scots vote for independence from UK in the 2014 referendum.\n<\/p>\n
The Scottish government has pledged to get rid of the nukes if it secures independence.\n<\/p>\n
The Conservative chairman of the Commons\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Intelligence and Security Committee Malcolm Rifkind said \u00c5\u201cit would take months, if not years to find an alternative site,\u201d adding construction of an alternative site could take at least 10 to 15 years.\n<\/p>\n
Britain has kept its Trident nuclear weapons at the Faslane naval base in western Scotland for 44 years.\n<\/p>\n
Even regardless of the Scottish administration\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s nukes removal pledge, London might be faced with having to keep the nukes in a foreign country if Scotland wins the independence plebiscite.\n<\/p>\n
Rifkind also referred to the case of Russian nuclear waste after Ukraine exited the former Soviet Union, saying Moscow had to keep them in Sevastopol naval base in Ukraine for 22 years before it could find a new site to place them.\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cLook how long it has taken to find sites for nuclear waste — infinitely less controversial than where you are going to place nuclear submarines,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
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