British MOX plant to be closed

British MOX plant to be closed

LONDON, Britain - File photo taken in March 2011 shows facilities related to nuclear power in Sellafield, Britain. Ten Japanese electric power companies that operate nuclear power plants jointly covered the cost of renovating a Sellafield-based plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel. Now the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which runs the facility, has determined Japan will no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close the reprocessing plant, industry sources said Oct. 18, 2011.

Pacific Ocean contamination rekindles memories of Sellafield leak

Pacific Ocean contamination rekindles memories of Sellafield leak

LONDON, Britain - Bill Camplin, group manager, radiological and chemical risk, at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Lowestoft, England, on April 12, 2011. Camplin, who has investigated radioactive leaks at the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria in the 1970s, suggested there are some parallels with the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. (Kyodo)

Pacific contamination rekindles memories of Sellafield leak

Pacific contamination rekindles memories of Sellafield leak

LONDON, Britain - John Hunt speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science laboratories in Lowestoft, England, on April 12, 2011. Hunt has been analyzing the implications of radioactive leaks into the Irish Sea from the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria. (Kyodo)

British MOX plant to be closed

British MOX plant to be closed

LONDON, Britain - File photo taken in March 2011 shows facilities related to nuclear power in Sellafield, Britain. Ten Japanese electric power companies that operate nuclear power plants jointly covered the cost of renovating a Sellafield-based plant to produce plutonium-uranium mixed oxide, or MOX, fuel. Now the British government-affiliated Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which runs the facility, has determined Japan will no longer need MOX fuel in the wake of the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, and has decided to close the reprocessing plant, industry sources said Oct. 18, 2011. (Kyodo)