Nuclear power is an essential part of our future energy mix. However, to be fully credible, an active and visible programme of work is needed to demonstrate that radioactive wastes will be disposed of safely. In the UK, a programme for managing historic and committed wastes is being developed and the success of this programme will affect the management of all future waste arisings. Higher activity and longer lived wastes will be consigned to a deep geological disposal facility designed to provide passive isolation of the wastes after it has been sealed and closed. This paper begins by considering how such a facility and the barriers that it comprises will contain and isolate radioactivity. It then considers the committed inventory of UK wastes and the repository engineered design options that might be available for them, in the diverse range of geological environments that may emerge from the government’s current voluntary siting process.
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Geological Disposal Facility for the UK’s Radioactive Wastes
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