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#50 Dealing with Nuclear Waste
The UK has a legacy of 600,000 tonnes of nuclear
waste being held in temporary storage facilities at 30 sites around the
country. It is enough to fill a football stadium and despite over 60 years of
generating nuclear power in the UK, we still don’t have a long-term plan for
disposing of it. Scientific consensus is that deep geological burial of waste
that has been contained in layer after layer of impermeable materials is the
only realistic solution, but the truth is that no community in the UK is
prepared to agree to a new facility being excavated beneath them.
In this episode nuclear waste expert Dr Claire
Corkhill of The University
of Sheffield urges the UK to talk
more about nuclear waste and act faster to deliver a long term solution.
Watch Dr Claire Corkhill’s documentary “We Should Be Talking About Nuclear Waste”
GUEST
Dr Claire Corkhill, reader in nuclear materials at The
University of Sheffield
The post #50 Dealing with Nuclear Waste first appeared on Engineering Matters.
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The UK has a legacy of 600,000 tonnes of nuclear
waste being held in temporary storage facilities at 30 sites around the
country. It is enough to fill a football stadium and despite over 60 years of
generating nuclear power in the UK, we still don’t have a long-term plan for
disposing of it. Scientific consensus is that deep geological burial of waste
that has been contained in layer after layer of impermeable materials is the
only realistic solution, but the truth is that no community in the UK is
prepared to agree to a new facility being excavated beneath them.
In this episode nuclear waste expert Dr Claire
Corkhill of The University
of Sheffield urges the UK to talk
more about nuclear waste and act faster to deliver a long term solution.
Watch Dr Claire Corkhill’s documentary “We Should Be Talking About Nuclear Waste”
GUEST
Dr Claire Corkhill, reader in nuclear materials at The
University of Sheffield
The post #50 Dealing with Nuclear Waste first appeared on Engineering Matters.
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