Greenpeace and Green action
There is a widespread perception that the UK's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), report 1 on the falsification of plutonium Mixed Oxide fuel (MOX) at the British Nuclear Fuel's (BNFL) MOX Demonstration Facility (MDF) located at the Sellafield site, was a devastating critique of the company's quality control standards. There are indeed important and critical issues addressed in the report. They have, together with the other reports released on general site safety and the storage of High Active Waste, significantly contributed to the broad media and public understanding, both in the UK and overseas, that BNFL's Sellafield operations are unsafe. However, there are strong reasons to argue that the NII has failed to substantially investigate both the extent and the underlying reasons for the original falsification of MOX Quality Control (QC) data produced by the MDF plant...
