The waste has been leaking into the ground from a storage silo at the Sellafield facility in Cumbria, in northwest England, since 2018 -- enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every three years.
In a report published Wednesday, a group of British MPs criticised the pace of the decommissioning work, citing examples of “failure, cost overruns and continuing safety concerns”.
The report by the Public Accounts Committee found that most of the annual targets for retrieving waste from buildings at the site, including the MSSS, had been “missed”.
“Every day at Sellafield is a race against time to complete works before buildings reach the end of their life,“ said the committee’s chair, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.
The radioactive leak is contained and does not pose a risk to the public, the report noted.
Britain’s National Audit Office forecast last October that the cost of decommissioning and cleaning up the entire Sellafield site over the next century had soared to £136 billion ($177 billion).
It noted that “full site remediation” was not expected until 2125.
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