Int. pressure to close Brit nuclear plant

  • 23/03/2000

A controversial British nuclear-reprocessing plant may be forced to shut down because of mounting international pressure, newspapers report. Denmark, Iceland and Ireland are planning to invoke environmental treaties on radiation-emissions to force reprocessing to be suspended at the Sellafield plant, Britain's Guardian newspaper said. The governments are worried about Sellafield's emissions into the sea, the Independent newspaper reported.