sellafield

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday August 29, 2002 17:46 by ciara

bad news for BNFL

THERE ARE REPORTS THIS EVENING THAT THE CAMPAIGN TO CLOSE SELLAFIELD HAS BEEN HANDED A SIGNIFICANT BOOST.
GREENPEACE IS CLAIMING THAT JAPAN HAS ORDERED A HALT TO tepco second largest potential customer for bnfl's japan is largest customer for mox frozen programme. They had known for years that reactors were faulty and that japanese govt knew was about to load plutonium mox into plants in two weeks.
president of tokyo electric announced plans for plutonium prgramme are being frozen, the governor's office fukushima deputy governor has stated how can we work with this industry Nigata - cannot proceed with plans stress corrosion - following an inspection this information came out, bnfl plutonium japanese government has frozen has reprocessing customers japan is largest overseas client for bnfl japan key to future reprocessing
bnfl has no contracts but was hoping japanese set conditions for plutonium transport was vital if they wanted more business.
tokyo electric has more plutonium at sellafield only last five hours - not 100 per cent gone, but not looking any shipments devastating effects.