Nuclear cargo docks in Cumbria

A shipload of returned radioactive nuclear fuel from Japan has completed its controversial journey to Cumbria from Japan.

Nuclear cargo docks in Cumbria

A shipload of returned radioactive nuclear fuel from Japan has completed its controversial journey to Cumbria from Japan.

The five ton cargo of Mox pellets, contained in specially designed fuel rods, have spent three years in Japan waiting to be returned to the UK.

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