David Cameron is to announce plans for the largest ever shipment of nuclear waste from the UK to the US. In return, the US will send a different type of used uranium to Europe where it will be used to help diagnose cancer.
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The UK waste will come from the Dounreay facility in Caithness
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BBC's James Landale said the PM's aim was to show that it is possible
to think differently about how to dispose of nuclear waste. But Friends of the Earth said any transatlantic transportation of nuclear waste was a risk it advised against.
Mr Cameron will travel to the US later to announce the agreement at a summit on civil nuclear security in Washington. He
will tell world leaders that Britain will transport 700kg of highly
enriched uranium to the US from the Dounreay storage facility in
Scotland.
Officials said this would be the largest ever such
movement of nuclear waste, which the US has more capacity to store and
process.
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