Nuclear Information Centre
Radioactive Waste Burial Urns (2025).
[NIC/NW/018]
With material origins shaped over geological timescales, these recently discovered bentonite and copper wire infused vessels are thought to be strangely long-lived surviving examples of commemorative radioactive waste burial urns, having been found in close proximity to the presumed, eventual location of the UK’s Geological Disposal Facility or GDF where our most hazardous, homegrown nuclear waste was finally laid to rest following the much heralded second or third nuclear renaissance…
Possibly dating from the latter half of the 21st century, ceremonial objects such as these may have been created as part of a consent-based ritual between Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) and the local GDF host community to mark the moment of transfer of high-level waste packages as they made their final journey from Sellafield before being deposited deep underground, systematically scattered within a highly engineered and multi-barriered system of copper, steel, clay and bedrock.
In loving memory of our Great British Nuclear Waste.
Information last updated: Fri 23 May 2025
Back