Press Release: Nuclear safeguards: the Commission imposes binding measures to put an end to an infringement at the Sellafield site in the United Kingdom

The UK authorities today received a request from the European Commission to resolve a situation regarded as unacceptable at the Sellafield nuclear facility. The Commission's analysis concludes that the UK operator, British Nuclear Fuel plc (BNFL) has failed to comply with the provisions of the Euratom Treaty and the rules concerning accounting for nuclear material and the access of Commission inspectors to nuclear material to check the nature and quantity of the nuclear material. The UK will have to submit an action plan by 1 June 2004 proposing the measures needed to put an end to this infringement.

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