Ireland will pay €14.6m over the next decade to allow members of the Irish science community access to the world’s best space observatory — and hopes to secure multiples of that amount in return through Irish firms tendering to work on the project.

British Nuclear Fuels was today mounting a major defence of safety standards at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant.

British Nuclear Fuels will tomorrow mount a major defence of safety standards at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant.