On Friday, 3 May 2019 11:20:21 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 03/05/2019 08:01, harry wrote:

To date nearly 870 cubic metres of vitrified HLW

A whole 870m^3 (Just under 13 standard shipping containers worth)...
after 70+ years of nuclear activity huh?

have been produced and 5,780 canisters have
been filled. These are held in a modern,
engineered air-cooled store known as the
Vitrified Product Store. This has thick concrete

Oh look, they are doing that thing a couple of posts ago some numpty
queried "So why is nobody doing it?"

walls to shield operators from the high radiation.
There is no existing disposal route for HLW.
However, current practice is for the canisters to
be stored for at least 50 years before disposal.
This allows the amount of heat produced by the
waste to fall, which makes it easier to transport
and dispose.
unquote

Just stored away. No permanent disposal.

You do realise that "disposal" means stored away don't you?

There also are thousands of tons of intermediate waste.