Over £1 million pounds of taxpayers' money is being saved at Sellafield by reusing fuel skips from another site, rather than buying new skips to decommission a 60-year-old legacy plant. Some 42 redundant Magnox skips have been saved from being broken up at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Chapelcross site and are instead being transported to Sellafield to be used for shipping waste out of the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP). PFSP waste manager Chris Mounsey came up with the money-saving idea and explained: "I got talking to colleagues at Chapelcross, who used these large metal storage boxes to store nuclear fuel underwater at their Scottish nuclear station. Earlier this year, they finished defuelling their reactors and no longer need their Magnox fuel skips, which seemed like a good opportunity for us.
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