Plans for Sellafield plutonium reactor rejected

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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority sees technology as immature and commercially unproven, internal emails reveal

A plan to build a plutonium-burning reactor at Sellafield in Cumbria has been rejected by the UK government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). Internal emails seen by the Guardian reveal that...

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