The long-awaited Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump has also been axed.

ECONOMIST: Face value

They have seen the imposition of any measures designed to slow economic activity rather as they might look at a toxic-waste dump: vital for the greater good, to be sure, but better in someone else's backyard.

ECONOMIST: It's not easy to slow down the economy

So farmers may have reverted to a time-honored waste-disposal method: dump it in the river.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: What's in China's Water?

No operating high-level waste dump exists anywhere in the world.

CNN: Opinion: Nuclear is 'a spanner in the works'

People living near a waste dump in south-east Cornwall have said they are "angry" its working life could be extended for another 22 years.

BBC: Anger over Connon Bridge landfill extension plan

The councillors were due to come to a decision last year but asked for a delay - this week is crunch time for Cumbria's nuclear waste dump vote.

BBC: Cumbria's nuclear decision has 100,000 year legacy