Nuclear Waste Disposal Uk

It outlines the nflas concerns in this area and the alternatives to such a facility.

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Nfla radioactive waste policy briefing to give an overview of the long standing process that has tried to find a deep underground nuclear waste repository called by the industry and the uk government a geological disposal facility gdf over the past four decades. Bruce cairns chief policy advisor at radioactive waste management rwm a public organisation established by government and responsible for planning and delivering geological disposal in the uk dr adam sims radioactive waste consultant mott macdonald dr tim marshall nuclear safety inspector and onr geological disposal lead. These activities have created radioactive waste which we need to manage safely.

Today nuclear energy provides almost a fifth of the uks electricity. A new fleet of nuclear power stations would only add 10 to the volume of existing waste over their 60 year lifespan. The uk has accumulated around 45m cubic metres of nuclear waste enough to fill wembley stadium four times over since the development of nuclear facilities began after the second world war.

In over 50 years of civil nuclear power experience the management and disposal of civil nuclear waste has not caused any serious health or environmental problems nor posed any real risk to the general public. More than 50 years ago the uk was one of the first countries in the world to develop nuclear fission technology into bombs and power sources. With a geological disposal facility gdf the waste will be put hundreds of metres deep underground.

Nuclear power reactors create 164 of nuclear waste in the uk.