LOCAL authorities in Cumbria have been offering to start talks with Whitehall about a possible nuclear dump for Cumbria.
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Councils offer talks about repository
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Strike threat hotting up at Sellafield
Thursday, July 3, 2008A SECRET ballot on industrial action is being organised for Sellafield’s 10,000 workers
Hidden costs of drawn-out pay dispute at Sellafield
Wednesday, July 2, 2008WEST Cumbria – and Copeland in particular – is likely to become more dependent than ever on the nuclear industry and we say that in full light of all the on-going efforts to diversify our economy.
So with all the signs pointing to another strike at the area’s biggest employer and economic bread earner – Sellafield – it has to be worrying.
£1.2bn ‘is not enough’
Wednesday, July 2, 2008KEY decommissioning projects at Sellafield may have to be delayed because of a budget shortfall.
Gordon Brown seeks Sellafield nuclear deal with Japan
Monday, June 23, 2008The Prime Minister Gordon Brown will talk to his Japanese counterpart, Yasuo Fukuda, at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido next month about a potential £1bn a year deal which would boost the UK's nuclear industry.
Mr Brown and Mr Fukuda will discuss a contract to reprocess fuel at Sellafield in Cumbria to be used in Japan's nuclear reactors, industry sources said.
Fuel for scandal
Saturday, May 17, 2008An ailing new nuclear plant at Sellafield will cost taxpayers billions, unless Gordon Brown has the courage to shut it down
Tom Tuohy
Wednesday, May 7, 2008An unsung hero, his bravery averted a possible British nuclear catastrophe
Thorp restarts nuclear reprocessing
Thursday, April 3, 2008The Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield has restarted commercial operations three years after it was closed following a radioactive leak - a development that should ease the funding crisis at the government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or Thorp, at the nuclear complex in west Cumbria, is a large source of income for the owner NDA, which is responsible for cleaning up the UK's nuclear reactor sites and dealing with radioactive waste.
Help sought on 100-tonne plutonium stockpile
Thursday, April 3, 2008The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on Wednesday will appeal to industry for help in dealing with the UK's 100-tonne stockpile of plutonium, and in deciding whether to treat it as waste or reuse it as fuel for nuclear reactors.
One option being considered is for the highly radioactive plutonium to be used to make fuel for a new nuclear reactor at Sellafield, where the plutonium is currently stored. But the question of whether the plutonium should be used or disposed of could reopen the debate on nuclear reprocessing and whether spent fuel from the next generation of nuclear reactors should be reused.
Buried costs
Thursday, March 27, 2008In this extract from his new book, Nukenomics: The commercialisation of Britain's nuclear industry, Ian Jackson looks at the radwaste disposal market and how it influences the economics of new nuclear build.
