ARGUMENTS over whether to store or reprocess nuclear waste have been thrown
into confusion following a change of heart by the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
In April, the UKAEA said the costs of both options were “comparable” if
plutonium is defined as waste. Now Â鶹´«Ã½ has learned that a
confidential draft of the report, completed in January, concluded that storage
“has a large advantage” because it is cheaper.
The government is considering whether to reprocess or store 25 tonnes of
plutonium fuel from a defunct reactor run by the UKAEA at Dounreay in Scotland.
The April report was part…
