The answer that many UK-based experts will likely give you is: probably not.
According to The Guardian, that's exactly what the UK government is planning to do, and experts are begging them to reconsider, arguing that burying the waste beneath the seabed could ruin marine life in the short-term, and leave future generations with an even more serious environmental catastrophe to sort
The goal is to find a permanent solution for the UK's higher-activity radioactive waste, one that will keep the toxic sludge safe over hundreds of thousands of years.
The UK has the largest amount of nuclear waste on the planet. There are more than one ton of plutonium in the poisonous muck that is scheduled for disposal.
In order to determine if an area off of England's Northwest coast will be suitable for the proposed facility, seismology testing is to start on Saturday. Several marine experts argue that the blasts are likely to hurt mammals.
What's the reason? Sea creatures are highly vocal and have been shown to be disturbed by loud seismology testing. More than 800 dolphins washed up dead on the shores of Peru after a round of seismology testing.
Nuclear waste is not predictable and the government has maintained its faith in the science that is, in essence, locking radioactive trash behind a sub-seabed door and throwing away the key.
The chair of an outfit called the Nuclear Free Local Authorities told the Guardian that leaving a legacy of a nuclear waste dump could be worse than solving a problem for future generations.
Nuclear waste dump off Cumbria would endanger marine life.
There is a plan to dump radioactive water into the ocean.
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