“WITH a gestation period longer than an elephant, it has delivered a mouse,” says Keith Baverstock, a radiation scientist from the University of Kuopio in Finland.
He is talking about the UK’s Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM), which has taken three years to deliberate on how best to dispose of the UK’s nuclear waste and come up with a solution that the government has already rejected not once but three times in the past 30 years.
CoRWM announced on 27 April that geological disposal is the “best available approach” in the long term for the UK’s 470,000 cubic metres…
