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Thorp-The Whitehall Nightmare

01 January 1991

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Thorp-The Whitehall Nightmare
libdoc April=1994

Author(s): Aubrey, Crispin
Publisher: John Carpenter Press 1993, 86pp, references.
Keywords: Nuclear industry environment security

Contents:
Over the last year a battle has raged between the nuclear
industry and the environmental movement. Sandwiched inbetween has
been almost every government department. The issue has been
whether to allow British Nuclear Fuels to open the Thermal Oxide
Reprocessing Plant at Sellafield.
THORP was the subject of the 1977 Windscale Enquiry, which gave
BNFL permission to build THORP. The justification at the time was
the production of plutonium and uranium, the money it would
generate for the country through foreign contracts, and the need
to service a hoped-for future generation of nuclear power plants.
Crispin Aubrey traces the story from the original enquiry to the
present day, re-examines whether the justifications are valid in
the 1990s, and the way in which the government and its agencies
are dealing with the dilemma. Publishers text

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