The company has a strong order book including business worth some £6,000 million for the first 10 years of operation of its thermal oxide reprocessing plant.
Sellafield reprocessing plant has always been insured against earthquakes, and this continues under the new commercial arrangements.
I have no plans to visit the reprocessing plant to discuss its operation.
As the work of the large-scale commercial reprocessing plant group is not yet complete, no report was presented to the non-proliferation treaty review conference.
Constituents of such spent fuel only become waste when they are separated in the reprocessing plant from the potentially valuable uranium and plutonium.
As the plutonium oxide has emerged from the reprocessing plant it has been placed in sealed containers and added to the stockpile.
The discharges followed the washing out of the reprocessing plant in the course of annual maintenance.
The reprocessing plant has not always operated continuously in the past but in discrete campaigns; it would be misleading therefore to quote an annual average.
