THE UK’s Environment Agency is concerned that the proposed containers for burying nuclear waste could crack and leak within 500 years, making the plans for a deep underground repository “overly optimistic”, documents obtained by Â鶹´«Ã½ say.
The government’s nuclear waste agency, Nirex, has proposed that radioactive waste from civil and military nuclear programmes be buried between 300 and 1000 metres below ground at a site yet to be selected. But a report sent to government advisers by the agency warns that there is a long-term risk that the concrete and steel waste containers will corrode and fail.
“There is good reason to doubt that…
