Nuclear Waste Services

Building the future, today

We can all play our part in a prosperous future. We’d like to share our scientific knowledge with you so you can build a clear picture around whether you think your area would be the right place for a Geological Disposal Facility for Nuclear waste.

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What is a GDF?

We’ve been using nuclear technology here in the UK for over 60 years. We use it to power our homes, in businesses and in medical procedures. In doing so, we’ve created nuclear waste. This is currently stored above ground, but a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) is now internationally recognised as the best long-term solution to dispose of nuclear waste. We are currently searching for a suitable location for a GDF in the UK. It will be entirely dependent on the geology of the area and the support of the local community to make it work.

Building a GDF is one of the largest environmental protection infrastructure projects of its kind. A community that chooses to host a GDF will benefit from investment in local infrastructure and facilities to support the community vision and plans for the area.

Investment & Funding

This is a major infrastructure project with guaranteed local investment for communities that participate in the siting process for a GDF. Investments will increase once investigations progress.

Jobs & Skills

The construction and operation of a GDF will provide thousands of highly skilled jobs, training opportunities and apprenticeships for the next 175 years. These roles will be in construction, engineering, safety, security and operations, amongst others.

Infrastructure

Building a GDF in an area will bring improvements in the infrastructure to that area with developments in roads, rail and a focus on public facilities like schools and hospitals.

Community & The Future

Work on a GDF will carry on into the future, generating 2000 jobs a year. It’s a long-term project which will continue to benefit the next generation and the generation after that.

What’s next?

There are already 4 local areas in the UK who have started a conversation about being the location for the GDF, where the siting process has begun. If you think your area could benefit from the opportunities a GDF could bring, then register today for a confidential discussion.

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GDF – Building the Future, today

NWS Chief Nuclear Scientist, Professor Neil Hyatt, explains how different towns of all sizes have prospered in the past by building on an opportunity, involving new industries, skills or infrastructures. As a new infrastructure, a GDF too may present an opportunity for the local community that chooses to host it. A GDF – as well as providing a secure, permanent underground home for nuclear waste, brings with it plenty of investment, jobs and skills.

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GDF – Inspired by nature, perfected by science

NWS’ Chief Nuclear Scientist, Professor Neil Hyatt, explains how natural geology provides inspiration for the secure, long term isolation and containment of nuclear waste. Science perfected this further with the ‘four barriers’ concept: natural and engineered barriers working together.

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Introducing Nuclear Waste Services

Nuclear Waste Services brings together the UK’s leading nuclear waste management capabilities, and is focused on the management of the UK’s nuclear waste safely and securely, for generations to come. It is part of the NDA group, which is undertaking the biggest clean-up project in Europe over many decades. Nuclear Waste Services is integral to this environmental clean-up mission, as it works to provide permanent answers to our country’s nuclear waste.

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