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UK Should Recycle Sellafield Plutonium Into Nuclear Fuel, Says Trades Union

By David Dalton
31 March 2025

GMB says material is a national asset, not a liability

UK Should Recycle Sellafield Plutonium Into Nuclear Fuel, Says Trades Union
The Sellafield site, in northwest England, has one of the world’s largest stockpiles of plutonium. Courtesy Jacobs.
Plutonium from the Sellafield site in the UK must be recycled into new nuclear fuel instead of immobilised and stored in a planned deep geological disposal facility, one of the country’s largest trades unions has said.

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