UK calls the plan to build nuclear waste storage facility "unachievable"

In its 2024-2025 Annual Report, the UK's National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority gave the program "to site and construct a permanent geological disposal facility" for "higher activity radioactive waste" a RED rating (row 32 in this sheet). This rating means that as currently structured, the project is deemed unachievable. The report also estimates that the project could cost up to £54b.