John Davies
The water tank inside THORP, Sellafield, Cumbria, England,
1991
Britain's only nuclear fuel reprocessing facility, Sellafield's
THORP plant,
became operational in 1990 to reprocess spent nuclear fuel
rods from power stations in Britain and Japan.
The future of the plant is now uncertain after it was reported
in April 2005 that a leak
of some 83,000 liters of liquid acids containing uranium, plutonium
and fission
products had spilled into a sealed room, known as a feed clarification
cell.
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