Green anger as Sellafield misses EU deadline

The Green Party has reacted angrily to news the British government has failed to meet an EU deadline for outlining how it plans to clean up a radioactive site at Sellafield.

Reports today said Britain was due to present an action plan on cleaning up the B30 open-air containment pond before June 1, but the document had yet to be received by the European Commission.

Green Party spokesman John Gormley said: “This is par for the course now for Sellafield. They have an appalling track record, we know that they have engaged in cover-ups and that the emissions into the Irish Sea continue.

"This obviously poses a serious threat to the health of the Irish people and it really is about time now that the Irish Government took this problem seriously.”