Sellafield closure - Five years wasted in botched bid

ARGUABLY, Ireland’s botched bid to get the United Nations to close the Sellafield nuclear plant was doomed from the outset.

Unsurprisingly, the European Court of Justice found the Government had broken EU law by taking the UN route. As a result, five years have been squandered in the battle to close the plant.

Meanwhile, the threat of a nuclear disaster grows as new atomic units are likely there.