The Prime Minister Gordon Brown will talk to his Japanese counterpart, Yasuo Fukuda, at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido next month about a potential £1bn a year deal which would boost the UK's nuclear industry.

Mr Brown and Mr Fukuda will discuss a contract to reprocess fuel at Sellafield in Cumbria to be used in Japan's nuclear reactors, industry sources said.

The deal would provide a welcome new source of revenue for the cash-strapped Treasury and would revive the UK's declining reprocessing industry.

But it would ignite anger among environmentalists alarmed at the potential for nuclear leaks. ... Read full article