"The Privatisation process should expose all the hidden costs associated with spent nuclear waste fuel reprocessing. Once this happens BNFL will realise that its future lies in waste storage, clean-up and decommissioning," said Greenpeace Nuclear Campaigner, Pete Roche.
"Unless reprocessing is shut down, the only way BNFL could be successfully privatised is by the taxpayer paying for the massive hidden liabilities"
Plutonium separation and reprocessing is a dying industry. Following the House of Lords Select Committee recommendation that plutonium should be declared a waste, BNFL could become the world leader in plutonium immobilisation. Reprocessing is expensive, pointless and dangerous and threatens to undermine efforts to stop nuclear weapons proliferation.
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