Britain's Main Nuclear Waste Site Almost Certain To Leak In Near Future, Agency Says
Sellafield nuclear site The Sellafield nuclear site in northwest England. About six kilometers (4 miles) to the south is the nuclear waste site, the Low Level Waste Repository, where material from Sellafield and elsewhere is stored. For the last 55 years, most of Britain's low-level nuclear waste--the kind of material used in nuclear power stations and the like--has ended up at a repository in northwest England, on the coast near the Irish Sea. Some areas of the site are only 16 feet above sea level. Not the best place to store radioactive waste, especially with rising sea levels, right? Right. The United Kingdom's Environment Agency has determined in a reported released to The Guardian that the "dump is virtually certain to be eroded by rising sea levels and to contaminate the Cumbrian coast with...