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HISTORY - IMPLICATIONS<br />

• Large number of different reac<strong>to</strong>r types of different ages with<br />

different spent fuel and radioactive waste requirements<br />

• Sites, particularly Sellafield, with large range of spent fuel and<br />

radioactive waste management facilities – some designed in late<br />

1940s and still operating, and some of <strong>the</strong> very latest designs<br />

• Programme of shut down of <strong>the</strong> Magnox fleet of reac<strong>to</strong>rs with<br />

end of associated reprocessing operations around 2012<br />

• Large amount of spent fuel and radioactive waste in various<br />

forms and facilities<br />

• Disposal facilities for LLW and passive safe s<strong>to</strong>rage approach <strong>to</strong><br />

ILW & HLW<br />

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