Campaigners slam £1m incentive to store nuclear waste

Compensation offered to encourage local communities to allow test boreholes is described as 'completely inadequate'

MPs from both major parties have attacked the government's latest incentive to entice communities into volunteering to host Britain's first deep underground store for nuclear waste as "completely inadequate".

Ministers have offered up to 1m per community for areas that constructively engage in offering to take part in the scheme, and a further sum of up to 2.5m where deep borehole investigations take place.