Mox proposal would pay nuclear firms to use recycled plutonium

Areva submitted a proposal to the government to build a Mox plant at Sellafield. Photograph: Brian Harris/Rex Features

Nuclear companies could be paid by the government to buy recycled nuclear fuel from a new taxpayer-funded plant, to reduce the country's stockpile of plutonium.

The government has proposed building a mixed oxide, or "Mox", facility, which uses plutonium to make nuclear fuel, although it admitted the plan was not economic as this type of fuel is relatively expensive to produce.

However, it said that such a plant

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