Winsford Salt Mine

Winsford Salt Mine has been described in a Sunday Times Investigation and in Ed Conway's book "Material World". It is an operating facility in UK near Manchester and Liverpool. It is solid geology, cut into rock salt.

Just a few points from the article.

• There are 138 miles of roads
• It has an Environmental Agency permit to store waste, which carries a 50,000 year environmental assessment.
• There is 2m cubic metres of space set aside for waste. 60 football pitches stacked 7 metres high; yet this is only a small fraction of the available space.

There is so much more in the article.

This looks like a perfect, already built and running, repository for radioactive material.

Last updated: 16 Jul 2023 12:59:03