The government sees the identification of a suitable deep geological store as an essential part of its future nuclear power generation programme.

BBC: Lake District National Park fears over nuclear waste store

The energy firm said it would continue to store waste on site until a deep geological disposal facility was made available - similar to the storages created in underground rock caverns in Finland.

BBC: Sizewell B nuclear power station

Geological surveys show America has enough saline rock formations to store three trillion tons of carbon dioxide enough for the next 500 years at the country's current output from human activities.

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