BNFL role change slated as 'excuse to do nothing'

摘要

British nuclear fuels will cease to own any atomic plants in the UK and become a science and technology company under plans announced by the Government last week. The new Liabilities Management Authority will assume ownership of the defunct plants and nuclear waste at BNFL's central Sellafield site and also at its operating facilities such as the £3bn Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) and the £470m Sell-afield Mox Plant, which will start making fuel from plutonium next year. 'It will be a knowledge-based company that sells our science and technology,' confirmed a spokesman. 'Everything on the Sellafield site would transfer to the LMA.