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Sellafield: change policy not people
28 February 2000
Token sacrifices of senior management will not solve Sellafield's problems ,Friends of the Earth warned today.
Reacting to the news that BNFL Chief Executive John Taylor is to resign,FOE's Senior Nuclear Campaigner Dr Patrick Green said:
“Re-arranging deck chairs on a sinking ship is no help to anyone.BNFL only has a long term commercial future if it changes the very nature of what it does.
The reprocessing operations and related business activities,including MOX, will come to end within a decade. But there is a profitable future for the company in cleaning-up and managing the nuclear legacy, both in the UK and around the world.
John Taylor understood this situation and was working towards a business strategy based on diversification. For that he deserves some credit. Unless his successor and fellow directors follow the same path, BNFL faces no future other than bankruptcy.”
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