Keep out - for the next 250,000 years The Government is abandoning plans to dump nuclear waste in Britain, so what will we do with it now? From: The Independent - London | Date: March 15, 1998| Author: Geoffrey Lean | Copyright 1998 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

NUCLEAR waste has to be kept isolated from humanity for at least a quarter of a million years, which is more than 20 times longer than the entire history of civilisation, from the time the first plough was put to the ground. No political problem facing government has quite such long-term implications.

For 40 years, the policy of successive British governments has been, in a classic Whitehall phrase, to "dispose of radioactive wastes at appropriate times and in appropriate places". In p...

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