«Breaking News» Towns and villages are offered up to £2.5million to become Britain's 'nuclear dustbin'

Town and villages are being offered millions of pounds as an incentive to become Britain’s ‘nuclear dustbin’.

Hundreds of tons of radioactive nuclear power station waste needs to be stored a kilometre – roughly 3,000ft – deep in the ground.

The facility will need to hold 750,000 cubic metres of waste – enough to fill three quarters of Wembley stadium – and will cost an estimated £8billion to build.

Town and villages are being offered millions of pounds as an incentive to become Britain’s ‘nuclear dustbin’. A Government document on how it find a site said the dump was ‘likely to have a positive effect on the local economy’ [File photo]

To provide an incentive to hosting the dumping ground, the selected area will be given between £1million and £2.5million a year for community projects, the Government said. 

The sweetener comes after the last attempt to find a nuclear burial ground flopped in 2013 – following five years of consultations – when Cumbria county council rejected the plan.

It is expected the process to find a site will take 20 years, and it will take ten years to build. It will then need to remain safe for up to 200,000 years.

To provide an incentive to hosting the dumping ground, the selected area will be given between £1million and £2.5million a year for community projects, the Government said

In the new scheme, rather than a council deciding, a final decision will rest on a local referendum. 

Waste is currently stored at 30 sites, mostly at Sellafield in Cumbria. It includes around 112 tonnes – the world’s biggest stockpile – of plutonium, the most poisonous substance ever created.

In 2016 the House of Commons Office of Science and Technology warned that plutonium is so dangerous it can even ‘self-sustain a nuclear chain reaction under certain conditions’. Other radioactive materials include uranium.

A Government document on how it find a site said the dump would need 600 skilled staff and was ‘likely to have a positive effect on the local economy’ and ‘will provide jobs and benefits to the economy for more than 100 years’. 

However, there is so much waste that Whitehall warns it may be necessary to split it between two sites.

Energy minister Richard Harrington said finding a site ‘is a responsible public service to future generations’.

He added: ‘The UK Government ... believes the safest option is to dispose of this higher activity radioactive waste in a geological disposal facility, where the waste is packaged and isolated in a series of vaults and tunnels deep underground. This will ensure that no harmful amount of radioactivity ever reaches the surface.’

Locations could be under the sea – although the surface access would be on land.

Waste is currently stored at 30 sites, mostly at Sellafield in Cumbria. It includes around 112 tonnes – the world’s biggest stockpile – of plutonium, the most poisonous substance ever created [File photo]

Neil Hyatt, professor of radioactive waste management at Sheffield University, said: ‘It’s good to see Government planning for a realistic time frame of 20 years to select a site, to enable confidence in the long-term safety of the project to develop.’

But Greenpeace’s Doug Parr said: ‘The whole rigmarole ministers are proposing simply enables nuclear enthusiasts to hijack the process and push their will on communities.’

Nuclear affairs author Fred Pearce said: ‘Round the world nobody wants this stuff. Not in my backyard.

‘They have tried the brick fields of Bedfordshire, under the Irish Sea, abandoned Teesside mines, beneath the Lake District National Park – almost anywhere you care to name.

‘Still nobody wants the neighbour from hell.’

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