nuclear waste

All of this has cast a shadow over an operation that, as well as taking in newly created nuclear waste, also houses several decades worth of much older radioactive material.

The site’s head of retrievals, Alyson Armett, points out that without a “permanent solution” for the nuclear waste, the plans to decommission could be delayed.

She studies how radioactive waste material can be made safe for extremely long-term storage, and is searching for the most stable, inert substance that nuclear waste could be "baked into".

It includes local residents, local government and representatives of Nuclear Waste Services, which is the government body behind this project.

He thinks the government’s approach to finding a nuclear waste disposal site "stinks".