reports 'Safe' burial plan for waste may clear way for new nuclear plants

Experts say underground bunker is right approach · Critics voice security fears over existing sites David Adam, environment correspondentThursday April 27, 2006The Guardian
Britain will move a step closer today to building more nuclear power stations, when an influential group of experts reports with the advice that the radioactive waste produced could be safely disposed of underground.
The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (Corwm) will recommend that an underground bunker is built to house the worst of the UK's existing mountain of nuclear waste, as well as material produced by any new reactors.
The move would clear one of the main political obstacles to the construction of new stations - that Britain has no long-term plan for handling the deadly waste, which can remain radioactive for tens of thousands of years.