Greenpeace today supported the European Commission's proposal to force BNFL to act more quickly to clean up the B30 spent nuclear fuel pond at its notorious Sellafield site in Cumbria.
Concern around B30, a 50-year-old nuclear storage pond, centres on the fact that it is so old that there are inadequate records of exactly what nuclear materials the plant contains. Estimates put the amount of plutonium in B30 at 1.3 tonnes.