UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste. Even after some 60 years of commercial and military programmes the UK’s stockpile of the most dangerous high-level waste amounts to a few thousand tonnes, although there are also several hundred thousand tonnes of intermediate-level waste which will have to be dealt with as well. The real issue is time. “Used fuel assemblies are intensely radioactive, and that radioactivity takes a long time to decay,” explains Prof Neil Hyatt, chief … read more »
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