The U.S. is still trying to decide whether to go ahead with its Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada.

FORBES: Continental Divide

The councillors were due to come to a decision last year but asked for a delay - this week is crunch time for Cumbria's nuclear waste dump vote.

BBC: Cumbria's nuclear decision has 100,000 year legacy

The long-awaited Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump has also been axed.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Government policy requires the return of some 3, 600 containers of nuclear waste, originally destined for the failed Nirex dump, from Thorp's first ten years of contracts.

ECONOMIST: Letters