The push to recover used radioactive fuel from the last nuclear power station of its kind is under way. Wylfa nuclear plant’s last reactor was turned off after 44 years at an outage ceremony on Anglesey in December. Workers have spent the past six months putting decommissioning plans into action, including a new safety regime. Removing 800 tonnes of spent Magnox fuel will now be the “dominant” focus over the next three years, officials have said. “Once we are fuel free, over 99% of all the radioactivity on the site will have left,” said Gordon Malcolm, deputy site director at Wylfa.
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