radioactive waste

Concerns over safety, cost, and what to do with radioactive waste had sapped enthusiasm for a technology once seen as a revolutionary source of abundant cheap energy.

Critics have also expressed concern about radioactive waste nuclear reactors leave behind for future generations.

However, critics say nuclear power is not risk-free and produces long-lasting radioactive waste.

The reaction creates helium and not the long-lived radioactive waste of the fission process which is used in existing nuclear power stations.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero says a GDF will provide “safe and long-term disposal of the most hazardous radioactive waste”.