Some topics are fraught with political difficulty: and the proposal to build a facility capable of taking the entire world’s nuclear waste generally earns bi-partisan agreement as the most challenging to attempt.
The core of the project was to see whether citizens could move beyond a reactive public opinion response and offer government informed, reasoned public judgement. It was partially successful – and in so doing the published ‘Learnings’ document offers a way forward for other very large scale projects of this type.