The UK has a legacy of 600,000 tonnes of nuclear waste being held in temporary storage facilities at 30 sites around the country. It is enough to fill a football stadium and despite over 60 years of generating nuclear power in the UK, we still don’t have a long-term plan for disposing of it. Scientific consensus is that deep geological burial of waste that has been contained in layer after layer of impermeable materials is the only realistic solution, but the truth is that no community in the UK is prepared to agree to a new facility being excavated beneath them.

In this episode nuclear waste expert Dr Claire Corkhill of The University of Sheffield urges the UK to talk more about nuclear waste and act faster to deliver a long term solution.

Watch Dr Claire Corkhill’s documentary “We Should Be Talking About Nuclear Waste”

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Dr Claire Corkhill, reader in nuclear materials at  The University of Sheffield