Michael Meacher MP

How about this?   The Government thinks the country’s in an unprecedented bind, there have to be unprecedented cuts, even chopping back winter fuel allowances for the over-80s, yet the Government is about to build another plutonium Mox (i.e. mixed oxide) plant at a cost of £2-3bn when the first Mox was a monumental failure, cost over £2bn, and only ever produced 1.6% of its target output.   There has been no official inquiry into this colossal waste of taxpayers’ money, and the National Audit Office has said there are no plans to do so.   Indeed the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has added that any investigations into what went wrong are commercially confidential.   I bet they are: I suspect that nobody who knew the truth would ever buy from Sellafield again.   So why then was it built in the first place? (more…)