From the safety of a computer screen in the control room, I can see a robot scoop up a chunk of asbestos from the reactor floor. I am at Sellafield, the nuclear complex on the coast of Cumbria in north-west England, watching remotely controlled machinery crawl through the defunct Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor, gradually stripping out the last of its guts. The mammoth task of dismantling the reactor started in the early 1990s but is only now finally nearing completion.
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-kingdom-uk
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hazardous-waste
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fast-breeders
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-fuel
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nuclear-research