Thorp

A multi-billion pound faculty in Cumbria built by the British government in the late '70s to reprocess and dispose of nuclear waste with the expectation that nuclear power would become widespread. Then suddenly in the mid-'80s, "nobody wanted nuclear power for some reason!"
Thorp had not been a successful venture and only processed a fraction of the planned amount. The tunnels they had dug five hundred meters below sea level were found to be unsuitable for nuclear waste storage—AFTER digging the tunnels—so the tunnels went completely unused. The existing waste was ignored until it became someone else's problem, as per standard government response. Similarly, the government would sell their white elephant projects for pennies; something that Cook Industries exploited to great advantage to get a radiation-proof facility on the cheap.
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