UK: JAPANENE VETO OF BNFL THREATENED
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Japan has said that unless British Nuclear Fuels takes back its shipment of flawed plutonium, it will cease to do business with the company. Despite tests revealing that the diameter of the plutonium pellets were within specification, Switzerland and Germany has banned nuclear trade with Britain and the future of the GB[pound] 300mn Mox plant at Sellafield is now doubtful. Returning the shipment would be both expensive and complicated since it would have to receive permission to pass through Australia, South-East Asia and South Africa where opposition would be strong and it will probably take many years before credibility and trust can be restored between BNFL and Japan.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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SWITZERLAND: FAULTS WITH NUCLEAR FUEL FRO THE UK
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The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate announced 22 December 1999 that it found faults with mixed plutonium-uranium oxide (Mox) fuel that British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) supplied. The Swiss safety authority said that BNFL supplied three Mox fuel assemblies in 1996 that were damaged a year after they were loaded into a reactor at Beznau. Checks were also carried out two years ahead of schedule on another nine rods. It is now known that the Beznau fuel rods were checked by the three employees of BNFL who were fired for falsifying quality control information. The revelation comes after similar problems reported recently regarding BNFL Mox fuel rods in Japan.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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