When Sir Keir Starmer entered No 10 last summer, it did not take long for him to pick up where his predecessors left off on delivering more nuclear power stations with a promise to “build, baby, build”.

The Prime Minister has vowed to “fast forward on nuclear” and so far has stuck true to his word, with the Government taking up a larger stake in the Sizewell C power plant in Suffolk , while loosening planning rules to allow new small modular reactors to be built across the country.

But with the push for more nuclear power, bringing with it a steady supply of low-carbon energy, the question is inevitably asked: what do you do with all the nuclear waste?

The answer is to dig a hole nearly the size of Wembley Stadium 1km down beneath the Irish Sea, that could one day see the rise of

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