Sellafield owners may sue for £100m bill

SELLAFIELD owner British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) is threatening to sue ailing nuclear power producer British Energy over stg£100 million (€158.7m) in unpaid bills according to industry sources.

The bills are for reprocessing carried out by BNFL for British Energy, which is Britain's power producer, supplying about a quarter of the country's energy needs.

British Energy warned in September it could go bust because of a steep fall in power prices that followed liberalisation of the energy market, prompting a stg£650 million bail-out by the British government.