UK restarts search for area to host highly radioactive waste

[Joanna + 68]

The UK government is expected to begin a nationwide search for a community willing to host an underground nuclear waste dump to store highly radioactive material for thousands of years. The last effort hit a brick wall in 2013 when Cumbria county council, the only local authority still in the running as a host for the dump, rejected it.

[JohnAtronis + 77]

why would anyone consider burying used nuclear fuel when new reactors are being developed that will use spent nuclear fuel and that fuel will be 90% used up 

[Meanwhile + 49]

thousand years?

[Missy + 42]

Yeah.. um... inviting prospect. Who would want a nuclear dump in their community? Crazy. Can't they just send it into orbit?

[Joanna + 68]

Falkland Islands? Or some other UK's "natural" territory 

[JohnAtronis + 77]

Other nuclear countries, such as Finland, have already started building underground stores. Scandinavians, always copy Scandinavians 

[Stephen + 67]

Why not bury it under the power station. Surely if the geology is right to build it, then its right to store the consequences

[Stephen + 67]

13 minutes ago, Joanna said:

Falkland Islands? Or some other UK's "natural" territory 

The Argentine Government would have something to say about that.

[damirUSBiH + 219]

Don't forget agreements to ship radioactive material, avoiding a hard border in Ireland, getting enough permits for UK hauliers to drive in the EU, aviation safety, policing intelligence...

[Petar + 76]

Government will provide £42m offer to communities which take radioactive waste...

[Missy + 42]

I vote for California.