Sellafield nuclear waste site to close due to coronavirus

Magnox reprocessing plant will begin controlled shutdown after 8% of staff self-isolate

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Britain's nuclear waste site will shut its reprocessing plant at Sellafield after more than 8% of its staff began self-isolating to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The controlled shutdown of the Magnox plant in Cumbria will begin in the next few days after an outbreak of the Covid-19 virus within Sellafield's 11,500 staff.