Where will the UK bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years?
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The UK's nuclear waste needs a permanent home - but finding a community willing to take it is tricky.

One of UK’s oldest nuclear waste storage silos is currently leaking radioactive liquid into the ground. That is a “recurrence of a historic leak” that Sellafield Ltd, the company that operates the site, says first started in the 1970s.

Sellafield has also faced questions about its working culture and adherence to safety rules. The company is currently awaiting sentencing after it pleaded guilty, in June, to charges related to cyber-security failings.

  • Jode@midwest.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I mean, this is leftover from 1940s technology, that was used in a mad rush to create a bomb. There are many other areas of the world that have been fucked over in the same manner because of the way we manufactured technology in the old days. But nobody is saying “we can never make solar panels ever again because industrial superfund sites exist” are they?