Sellafield MOX plant to close

Jessica Shankleman
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Decision taken as a result of disaster at Japan's nuclear power plant, up to 600 jobs could go

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is to close its Sellafield mixed oxide fuel plant (SMP) in Cumbria because of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant in March. The NDA announced...

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