£154m plan hatched to move UK’s 140-tonne cache of powdered plutonium from nuclear reactor waste at Sellafield.

£154m plan hatched to move UK’s 140-tonne cache of powdered plutonium from nuclear reactor waste at Sellafield.

Britain could finally solve the problem ofwhat to do with its radioactive waste by converting it into ceramicpellets, The Telegraph can reveal. Government scientists want to store theradioactive plutonium, which is a national security risk because it can beused to make nuclear weapons, in an underground nuclear graveyard. TheUK’s cache of 140 tonnes of powdered plutonium from nuclear reactor wasteis currently under armed guard at Sellafield in C…