Oh my!! Something tells me we'd be as well off consulting Madame Alicia...

Seriously, I suspect that someone in gov't suggested bringing in the WI because of women's "special" perspective "for the children." Not to mention their desire for political legitimacy... Didn't this group come up here at SYG several months ago? Maybe the biggest thing they'd done was raise money to build themselves a building with a library/speakers room?
In the US, the "community hot button" is the disposal of outdated WWII nerve gas and mustard gas... It's been an on-going "hot button" in a community near me for awhile. Just this past week, there was a problem in Indiana...
Nerve Agent Destruction Halted in Ind. After 500-Gallon Wastewater Spill...
Gov't will take heat either way... If the scientists and army plan everything with no community input, people will scream (they've got to live in those communities when something goes wrong). If the gov't asks for community input early on, who knows what will be suggested...
Maybe someone's hoping for a movement calling for cities to declare themselves "nuclear free zones." That was popular in the US in the 1980's. Of course Europe depends more on nuclear power than the US. But don't mind me.. I don't live in the UK and haven't slept yet...