UK government body Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has decided not to take Allerdale in Cumbria, northwest England, further in the UK’s geological disposal facility (GDF) siting process due to limited suitable geology.
NWS said it had been engaging with the Allerdale community about the potential for hosting a disposal repository for the UK’s most radioactive waste.
As part of this process NWS obtained existing data and undertook assessments to understand if six siting factors – safety and security, community, environment, engineering feasibility, transport and value for money – could be supported if a GDF were sited in Allerdale.