Experts are concerned that the Drigg Low Level Waste Repository (pictured) near Sellafield will be eroded by rising sea levels in a few hundred to a few thousand years' time.

The UK's national low-level waste repository at Drigg (Image: LLW Repository Ltd) The repository has been operating as a national low-level waste repository (LLWR) since 1959. It receives wastes from ...

Nuclear Waste Services is preparing 260 containers of radioactive waste for final emplacement in disposal vaults at the UK's Low Level Waste Repository in Cumbria. Ahead of this work NWS made ...

LLW Repository Ltd posed an advertisement in the Whitehaven News after discovering that the records of disposal were far from complete. 'We need your help,' begins the advertisement. 'Did you work ...

The UK's Low Level Waste Repository, which is based in West Cumbria, has reached capacity. The Environment Agency is involved in a consultation on whether to expand it.

A £22m bunker to store low-level radioactive waste in west Cumbria is being opened. Vault 9, at LLW Repository Ltd's site at Drigg, will be able to hold 110,000 cubic metres of low-level nuclear ...

Some countries believe they have found at least part of the answer. Sweden puts LLW and ILW in a huge rock chamber carved out of the rock beneath the bed of the Baltic sea. Its critics say the policy ...

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. J has won a contract from LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) to provide infrastructure program support for low-level waste repository in U.K. Per the four-year framework, Jacobs ...

--Jacobs was selected by LLW Repository Ltd to provide multi-disciplinary technical services at the U.K.' s national disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste as sole service provider on ...

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. J has won a contract from LLW Repository Ltd (LLWR) to provide infrastructure program support for low-level waste repository in U.K. Per the four-year framework, Jacobs ...