IRELAND plans to take the European Commission to court in the latest move to have Sellafield closed.

The Green Party has welcomed the decision by British Nuclear Fuels to close the Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield before the end of this decade.

HEALTH and radiation surveys have pointed to the Sellafield nuclear processing plant in Cumbria as being almost as much a hazard for people on Ireland's east coast as it is to those living and working near the British plant.