The wildlife-rich wetlands of Romney Marsh in Kent could become a radioactive dumping ground for Britain
Sounds a bit weird. Don\’t you want some nice rocky area, not a low laying marsh?
Some nice already radioactive chunk of granite perhaps? Some Cornish or Aberdonian mountain?
Pure pendantry alert …
Granite in Cornwall, yes, but mountains? 1400 ft is barely a hillock.
No mountains in Aberdeen either.
Quite a few in Aberdeenshire, though.
Perhaps a more important consideration than the surface conditions would be how geologically stable the underlying bedrock is.
@Gareth has it. The waste will be kept 200m to 1000m underground so what ever is on the surface has little to do with it.
Dump it under Cambourne. The holes to drop it into already exist, and if it really does turn the locals into horrifying mutants, like the enviro-nuts always claim, nobody will notice.
Two train-loads per week? Ahh, that’ll be low-grade waste. Radiation suits, tools, brushes, wet-wipes, anything which might have come into contact with radioactive materials. Mostly from hospitals. It’s not actual nuclear fission product.
@SE
True but none in Aberdeen itself, so the ones in Aberdeenshire aren’t Aberdonian. So my pedantry stands 🙂
I find it a bit strange that they call it “dumping”. At least with proper nuclear material, used fuel, you don’t dump it, you seal it for permanent storage. First of all, you cannot spill it around because of radioactivity and toxicity. Moreover, I expect in less than a few hundred years, possibly in just decades, someone will discover a useful way to utilize it, so it will need to be recovered.