Commercial Nuclear Reprocessing Ends at Sellafield

摘要

Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from around the world has ended at Sellafield. The last batch of waste has gone through its Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp), which opened in 1994. It has generated an estimated £9bn by extracting new nuclear fuel from 9,000 tonnes of used rods from 30 customers in countries as far afield as Japan.