Sellafield to be assessed as part of EU safety review

THE safety of the Sellafield nuclear plant in Wales will be assessed as part of an EU-wide review following the disaster in Japan.

Speaking following the two-day EU summit in Brussels yesterday, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he had specifically requested that Sellafield be included in the review.

Sellafield is a reprocessing plant rather than a generating plant, meaning it separates spent nuclear fuel into recyclable and waste elements rather than generating electricity itself.