Sellafield exposed: the nonsense of nuclear fuel reprocessing

The Ecologist
Sep 6, 2016, 7:49 am134 pts
Last night's BBC Panorama programme did a good job at lifting the lid on Britain's ongoing nuclear disaster that is Sellafield, writes David Lowry. But it failed to expose the full scandal of the UK's 'reprocessing' of spent fuel into 50 tonnes of plutonium, enough to build 20,000 nuclear bombs - while leaving…

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