Iberdrola joins PRISM plan to turn plutonium stockpile into power

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Spanish utility signs MoU with GE Hitachi's PRISM project to generate power from UK's nuclear waste

GE Hitachi's (GEH) plans to build a new plant at Sellafield that could turn the UK's 100 tonnes of plutonium into a source of low carbon energy will take a step forward today, after it announced Spanish...

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