euronews (in English) / Spurred into action by an == EU directive,== and after decades of apparent inactivity, EU members are finally tackling the vexed issue of how to deal with nuclear waste.
The favoured solutions involve stocking the ultra-toxic material deep underground and it is those that we turn the spotlight on in this edition of Reporter, produced by Hans Von der Brelie. We visit two sites where work is already underway and at which billions of euros have literally been poured into holes in the ground.