Treasury criticises ‘unachievable’ plan for underground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria
by Sandra Laville from Environment | The Guardian on (#6ZD4E)
Assessment suggests cost of project to store 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste could reach 54bn
The UK's proposal for a new underground nuclear waste dump has been described as unachievable" in a Treasury assessment of the project.
Ministers have put new nuclear power at the centre of their green energy revolution. But the problem of what to do with 700,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste - roughly the volume of 6,000 doubledecker buses - from the country's past nuclear programme, as well as future waste from nuclear expansion, has yet to be solved.
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