Communities offered £1m a year to host nuclear waste dump

New search for communities willing to host underground site for thousands of years

Local communities around England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be offered 1m a year to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste disposal facility for thousands of years, as part of a rebooted government programme.

The financial incentive is one way the government hopes to encourage communities to host the 12bn facility, after previous efforts failed in 2013 when Cumbria county council rejected the project.