Nuclear closure

摘要

Only two commercial facilities in the world recycle plutonium and uranium from used nuclear fuel to make 'mixed oxide' (MOX) fuel: now one of them is shutting down. Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on 3 August announced the closure of the MOX facility at Sellafield. The plant was supposed to supply Japanese reactors with MOX, but has been left without a market in the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. See page 140 for more.