The Irish government has taken the unusual step of placing a full-page advert
in a British newspaper calling for Britain to shut its Sellafield nuclear
reprocessing plant. The ad, which ran in The Times last week,
says the recently approved MOX plant and the entire site pose an “unacceptable
threat to the environment” and a “grave security risk” in the face of terrorist
attacks. It was signed by Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and the Fianna
Fáil republican party. But British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected
to defend Sellafield when he meets Ahern in Dublin this week. Sellafield…
To continue reading, today with our introductory offers
Advertisement
More from New Scientist
Explore the latest news, articles and features

Physics
300-year-old experiment could become world's best dark matter detector
News

Life
The greatest David Attenborough documentaries you really need to watch
Culture

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ
Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease
News

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ
Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
News
Popular articles
Trending New Scientist articles
1
Is consciousness more fundamental to reality than quantum physics?
2
We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
3
Human heads have changed shape a lot in the past 100 years
4
Smart underwear detects lactose intolerance by tracking your farts
5
Why the keto diet could be a revolutionary way to treat mental illness
6
The rings of Uranus are even stranger than we thought
7
Thought-provoking photographs capture what it feels like to have ADHD
8
The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
9
Weird 'transdimensional' state of matter is neither 2D nor 3D
10
The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology