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Yet the investors discovered that many of the casks they had bought, had either been heavily overpriced – up to five times in some cases – or didn't exist at all.

The most expensive cask she bought – which cost her £49,500 – does not exist.

In one case, a damaged heap of commercial spent-fuel rods from Michigan’s Big Rock Point nuclear power plant were over-stuffed into some casks that were meant to be taken to a storage site via train.

Eventually, vitrified low-activity waste will be disposed of on-site in stainless steel casks, and a separate melter just for high-level waste will come online to manage the most toxic waste.

A winemaker shaded his casks under its limbs, then German immigrants bought the winery and turned it into a brewery.