Here’s news from a sister organization located near the Sellafield nuclear complex in the UK – Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE). The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) has been a major failure that is a harbinger to the end of the spent fuel reprocessing experiment in in Europe. THORP and the associated Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP), the UK’s equivalent of the SRS MOX boondoggle, have been economic and technological disasters that show that the only purpose that reprocessing serves is to line the pockets of those engaged in it.
CORE news release, July 25, 2014:
1000 tonnes of THORP contracts abandoned by overseas customers since 1994
” Since the £2.8Bn Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) was opened in 1994 – with the usual razzmatazz from its then owners British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), Sellafield’s ’flagship’ reprocessing plant has lost some 1000 tonnes of business contracted by overseas customers. ”
SRS Watch is proud to be associated with CORE, which produces spot-on analyses of the situation at Sellafield.