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Nuclear Waste

As part of the fuel mix disclosure, suppliers also have to show the high-level radioactive waste created as a result of the generation of the electricity they supply.

Nuclear waste is produced at each stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining, to reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel. Much of the high-level radioactive waste will remain hazardous for thousands or even millions of years.

 

Still no solution

After 50 years of nuclear power, the UK has still to find a satisfactory solution for dealing with its nuclear waste. In July 2002 the Government announced a further review of the options for managing radioactive waste, a report on which is expected in November 2006.

An account of the attempts to find a solution to the problem of nuclear waste is given in History of nuclear waste disposal proposals in Britain gives an account of this search.

 

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