IT WOULD be nice to think that Britain’s biggest nuclear complex, at Sellafield in Cumbria, is in safe hands. Surely one of the world’s largest stockpiles of plutonium and accumulations of radioactive debris is managed by an organisation that is alert to any danger?
Dream on.
Three scathing reports published last week by the British government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) slammed the “poor safety culture” and “systematic management failure” at Sellafield. The reports raise serious questions about the competence of the site’s operator, British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), and once again highlight the absurdity of the reprocessing business.
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