Nuclear Waste Services is starting the process of evaluating four potential areas for suitability to host the UK's Geological Disposal Facility. It is expected that a final site selection could be a ...

In its updated strategy for handling nuclear waste and radioactive substances, the UK proposes to use a shallower disposal facility for suitable intermediate-level waste which was previously earmarked ...

Lewis Blackburn receives funding from EPSRC through the provision of a Doctoral Prize Fellowship. The UK is planning to significantly expand its nuclear capability, in an effort to decrease its ...

The UK has produced radioactive waste since the dawn of the nuclear age some 70 years ago. The waste comes from nuclear power stations, medical and industrial facilities and the defence programme.