Value of recent UK underground nuclear waste facility jumps to £53 billion
A bigger quantity of waste and 'extra sensible' scope of prices has resulted in a much bigger price ticket for constructing and working a long-term storage facility for radioactive waste
Sizewell nuclear energy station in Suffolk, UK David J. Inexperienced/Alamy
The price of a proposed underground storage facility to securely home the UK’s nuclear waste for millennia has greater than doubled prior to now 4 years to as a lot as £53 billion, in response to a brand new authorities estimate.
The UK at present shops its 133,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste above floor, and the amount is projected to swell to greater than 4 million cubic metres in future. In 2018, the authorities rebooted its search for a neighborhood in England keen to …
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