Let's multiply the geographic spread of nuclear waste, multiply and spread thinly the amount of security needed to protect these sites, and fall into a government story after the disaster of Brexit.
A tip for international readers, the UK is currently captured by the worst government in a generation and it is inherently untrustworthy.
Spraying $546m at a "profile-lifting" project is nothing to a government that will waste billions at the behest of Tory donors without a second thought.
I'll classify this under "R&D puff piece that will likely amount to nothing, or a loss", like nearly everything else the current UK government has done.
Well the worst-case is that it "succeeds" in which case we dump a lot of money that could be better spent on seriously addressing climate change. Instead we construct new security hazards to rear their heads during whatever societal disintegration we face as climate change, the rising tide of fascism, economic mismanagement, and the lawless global system of competing blood-thirsty imperial blocs, converge down to a point.
I worry that if humanity survives all this, a thousand years from now, as new civilisations form out of the ashes, what problems they're still going to be left with.
A tip for international readers, the UK is currently captured by the worst government in a generation and it is inherently untrustworthy.
Spraying $546m at a "profile-lifting" project is nothing to a government that will waste billions at the behest of Tory donors without a second thought.
I'll classify this under "R&D puff piece that will likely amount to nothing, or a loss", like nearly everything else the current UK government has done.