Groundbreaking research from the has brought about significant changes in how the UK's radioactive waste materials are stored safely and extensively influenced national policy decisions around ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has ... for permanent disposal deep underground.

More than 300,000 tonnes of nuclear graphite waste worldwide, and around 100,000 tonnes in the UK, await disposal in a Geological Disposal Facility that is yet to be built. The treatment developed ...

But the government has now decided that it will not be reused and instead says it wants to put the hazardous material "beyond reach" and made ready for permanent disposal deep underground.