Following 'efficiency savings', sixty job are to go at the British state agency responsible for shifting control of Sellafield to the private sector, the BBC reports.The local Council is gutted. The leader of its strategic policy commitee says: "This does not mean that West Cumbria is not committed to the nuclear industry.
"We have a strong industry with a skilled workforce and there is still much work in nuclear decommissioning and potentially new nuclear sites here in West Cumbria."
(Phew! For a minute there, we were beginning to worry that they'd stop creating oodles of badly stored radioactive waste on the coast of our sea.)
Ominously though, that dude (one Tim Heslop) is a member of the Alliance Party. His party colleague and Minister for Energy Chris Huhne is the currently the last barrier between the nuclear-friendly Conservative administration and a whole new generation of nuclear reactors. But the Lib Dems seem to be coming round to the idea of nuclear power. One to keep an eye on.
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