nuclear waste, Tag

When uranium was scarce, reprocessing was all the rage. Two decades on, the Cumbrian plant, though still a major source of jobs, has outlived its missionDeep in the heart of Sellafield, Britain’s biggest nuclear waste site,...

With demand for electricity set to rocket, the UK cannot rely on renewables alone

Conservation groups speak out as fears grow of Lake District being eyed as possible site

Safest site should be chosen regardless of location, committee says – but opponents call idea ‘outrageous’

Safest site should be chosen regardless of location, committee says – but opponents call idea ‘outrageous’

Botched tender was for the disposal of materials at 12 UK sites including Dungeness

The powerful few who benefit from the fossil fuel status quo are exerting their influence

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

New search for communities willing to host underground site for thousands of years

A new-build programme would create an intolerable burden on communities into the far future, writes Andrew Blowers; while Rose Heaney wonders why our abundant renewable energy sources are being overlookedIn 1976, Lord Flowers...

Right geology and local consent are key in consultation due to be launched this week

Sue Roaf writes that evacuation plans for Hinkley Point would have to involve at least a million people; while Diarmuid Foley says that, in the modern world, the route to weapons-grade material is not taken through the civilian...

Building Britain’s first new nuclear reactor since 1995 will cost twice as much as the 2012 Olympics – and by the time it is finished, nuclear power could be a thing of the past...

UK government study finds electricity would be nearly one-third pricier than it would from plants such as Hinkley Point C

‘Extremely high’ levels of a radioactive isotope were discovered in parts of Russia in September. But where did it come from? And is it dangerous?