Currently, the UK’s inventory of radioactive waste is safely stored at multiple sites around the country. That’s manageable in the interim but it’s not a permanent solution. The answer is clear.

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at Sellafield.

Then, in the second half of the century, a much deeper geological disposal site will be dug, which will hold the UK's "most dangerous waste", such as plutonium, said The Telegraph.

The right stuff. Under current disposal plans, this radioactive waste will be sealed in a "multibarrier" system—a series of canisters within canisters, engineered to contain the waste for ...

Launched in December 2022, this project helped validate Deep Isolation’s patented borehole disposal technology for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). Conducted in ...

Radioactive Waste Management Limited, the company tasked with developing a Geological Disposal Facility in the UK, has set out its approach to GDF site evaluation in England and Wales, following a ...

Britain's radioactive waste disposal process has stalled after conflicting votes between regional and local government. The borough of Copeland voted to continue exploring its suitability, but it lies ...

The repository site near Drigg in West Cumbria began accepting low-level radioactive waste in 1959. Disposal methods evolved in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to the construction of ...

Making our most hazardous radioactive waste permanently safe, sooner Politics Home | How we’re making progress towards building a geological disposal facility for nuclear waste in the UK ...

Germany’s Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (BGE – Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung) is in the process of identifying a suitable location for the permanent underground storage ...

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 the world's largest stockpile of the ...