2002-04-11
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2001/07
BNFL's Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) plans to produce Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel to meet demand from customers who are recycling their spent fuel. Appendix A1 gives an introduction to the role of MOX in recycling, and the alternative to recycling, namely management of the separated plutonium as a waste. Significant investment has already been made in SMP. However, under the European Union's Basic Safety Standards Directive (96/29/Euratom), it cannot operate without passing a test of justification: the benefits of a practice involving ionising radiation need to outweigh any environmental or other detriments.
The Government announced its provisional view in 1999 that full operation of SMP would be justified, but that a final decision would depend on the outcome of further consultation on the economic assessment of the practice and on the market for MOX fuel. The consultation took place in June 1999. However, because of the MOX fuel data falsification incident, identified in August 1999 at BNFL's MOX Demonstration Facility (referred to as the MDF incident, and described in Appendix A4), and a new business case put forward by BNFL in 2001, the Government decided that further consideration of the case was needed. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has asked Arthur D. Little(ADL) to conduct an economic assessment of SMP before a decision on SMP approval is made.
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