UK radioactive waste disposal site search continues despite opposition

Radioactive Waste Management accepts social and political challenges must be overcome - but says government now has power to overrule local communities

Plans costing 4bn to identify and create a geological disposal site for the UK's radioactive waste are being hindered by a "nuclear perception problem" say experts.

It is estimated that the lifetime cost of disposing of the radioactive waste accumulated to date will cost the taxpayer around 12bn, with 4bn estimated to be spent before the waste can be buried.