UK Unveils Proposals For Deep Geological Repository By 2040
Written by NucNet
Friday, 09 July 2010
The UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has published proposals to have a deep geological facility for radioactive waste operational by 2040 with site preparation potentially beginning in less than five years.
The NDA yesterday outlined plans for storing the UK’s waste – left over at 34 sites from both the civilian and military nuclear industries – in an underground repository in a process that will take at least 30 more years.
The cost of developing such a facility is estimated at about four billion pounds (6 billion US dollars, 4.8 billion euro).
The NDA is now carrying out preparatory studies which could take five years. The authority said it is developing conceptual designs and the safety and environmental assessments for those designs.
