Plans to build a nuclear fast reactor at Sellafield come a step closer - Science - News - The Independent

GE steps up efforts to deploy a PRISM reactor in the U.K.

Plans to build a nuclear fast reactor at Sellafield come a step closer - Science - News - The Independent:

"A radical plan to deal with Britain’s plutonium waste – the biggest civil deposit in the world – has come a step closer with a legal contract to test the feasibility of building an American nuclear fast reactor on the Sellafield site in Cumbria.
Britain’s own fast-reactor programme was abandoned two decades ago and yesterday it was announced that the fast-reactor site at Dounreay in Scotland will be dismantled by 2025 at a cost of £2.7bn.
However, The Independent can reveal that nuclear officials have signed a feasibility study to investigate the possibility of building an American-designed fast reactor to “burn” the plutonium waste on-site at Sellafield."

The full article can be read at the Independent site
Professor Barry Brooks posted the GE press release in a comment on his bravenewclimate.com site