Nuclear waste

The British government may have dropped its plan for nuclear privatisation two years ago when serious problems were found at the Sellafield nuclear complex. But it hasn’t completely given up on the idea. It has changed tack. Instead of wholesale privatisation, it now plans to dismantle BNFL – the state-owned nuclear holding company – and sell off the sexier bits of the business, some of which it actually bought in the late 1990s to dress BNFL up for sale. What will ultimately be left is the dec...