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BBC News - What is nuclear reprocessing? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/647981.stm
BBC News Online examines the benefits and disadvantages of the nuclear fuel reprocessing system. Includes a description and graphic of the Sellafield process, and links to related Sellafield news items.

British Nuclear Fuels - http://www.bnfl.com/
The company's expertise spans fuel manufacture and uranium procurement through to recycling used fuel, transporting radioactive materials, engineering, waste management and decommissioning. Operators of many UK nuclear plants, including the Sellafield reprocessing Plant in Cumbria.

Children of Plutonium - http://www.nonukes.org/w15cancr.htm
Article on the high cancer rate in the offspring of Sellafield fathers, by William Keepin, Ph.D.

Crisis deepens over British nuclear reprocessing plant - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/nuc-a03.shtml
Article from World Socialist on international alarm over the production and storage of nuclear waste and reprocessed fuel at Sellafield.

Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment - http://www.corecumbria.co.uk/
CORE's campaign remit is to cover all aspects of Sellafield's operations including the radioactive sea and air discharges, the resultant contamination of the local environment, and the health detriment to local communities and wildlife.

Greenpeace - Reprocessing - http://archive.greenpeace.org/nuclear/reprocess.html
Various articles from the Greenpeace website on reprocessing, including several relating directly to Sellafield.

Guardian Unlimited - Nuclear Reprocessing - http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/flash/0,6189,181369,00.html
Find out how nuclear processing works at the Sellafield THORP plant, with this click-through graphic. [Flash required]

Guardian Unlimited - Today's issues - Sellafield - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2000/feb/18/energy.nuclearindustry
feature on Sellafield in the Guardian, Friday February 18, 2000, with a description of what the plant does, why Sellafield is in the news, and questions why nuclear power is unpopular.

N-BASE Sellafield Crisis - http://www.n-base.org.uk/public/report_links/danming_sellafield.html
Reports from various sources commenting on the reports by the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), published on Friday 18th February 2000 on British Nuclear Fuels and the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

Team Investigation of Sellafield - http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/team/team.htm
Report from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into a multidisciplinary team inspection carried out by HSE into the control and supervision of operations at BNFL's site at Sellafield.

The Alternative Guide to Sellafield - http://www.lakestay.co.uk/ast.htm
An alternative view to the official one about the 1957 fire, reprocessing, plutonium and other matters at the Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear reprocessing plant in West Cumbria.

Windscale Nuclear Incident - http://www.nucleartourist.com/events/windscal.htm
Detailed description of the world's first significant release of radioactive material from a nuclear reactor. This happened on October 7, 1957, at Windscale in Cumberland, [now renamed Sellafield].

WISE Women special - The Sellafield Story - http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.html?http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/509-10/5009.html
Article by Janine Allis-Smith about her son who often played on the beaches near Sellafield, and who at the age of 12, was diagnosed with leukemia.

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