Recycle don’t store nuclear waste – union says
A union is calling for radioactive plutonium at a nuclear plant to be recycled into new nuclear fuel instead of stored.
In January the government said it would put 140 tonnes of the hazardous material, currently stored at Sellafield in Cumbria, “beyond reach” making it ready for permanent disposal deep underground.
But the GMB union said plutonium should be considered “a national asset, not a liability”.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DEZNZ) said immobilising the stockpile was the best “long-term solution for cleaning up our nuclear legacy”.
