Britain's nuclear complex at Sellafield is Europe's biggest single industrial site and home to what was meant to be a huge fuel reprocessing system that would produce power while reducing the legacy of radioactive waste.

It was built amid enthusiasm that atomic power would be "too cheap to meter" and yet, 52 years on, its catalogue of failures has left it with one of the world's largest stockpiles of plutonium and a bill to the taxpayer of about £3bn a year, a new report says.

Paul Brown, author of Voodoo Economics and the Doomed Nuclear Renaissance, says: "The nuclear dream has turned into an economic and security nightmare for the British taxpayer. ... Read full article