Ed Miliband has been urged to preserve a 140-tonne stockpile of radioactive plutonium instead of burying it as dangerous waste. The material, which is made up of spent fuel from power plants, still has the potential to generate energy and disposing of it would amount to “economic vandalism”, an industry insider warned. Reusing the plutonium – currently stored at Sellafield in Cumbria – would go against proposals thought to be favoured by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which has been … read more »
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