A British government mission to Japan which aimed to restore confidence in
the Sellafield nuclear plant ended in failure last week, with Japan reiterating
its demand for suspect plutonium fuel made at the plant to be shipped back to
Britain. Officials from the Department of Trade and Industry apologised for
faked checks on the fuel pellets made for Japanese reactors, but they won no
promises that Japan would reopen business with British Nuclear Fuels, the
company that runs Sellafield. Japan is BNFL’s biggest foreign customer.
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