VerdanaI found this on ENN--Environmental News Network. Wonder if there could be a related treatment for the uranium we've left in Iraq, Kosovo and other places? Wren Osborn Britain cuts emissions from Sellafield nuclear plant Thursday, April 22, 2004 By Associated Press LONDON — A new chemical treatment will cut emissions of a radioactive contaminant from the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant by 90 percent, Britain's Environment Agency said Wednesday. Plant operator British Nuclear Fuels said the new waste-treatment process would slash emissions of technetium-99, a byproduct of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. It said a treatment involving the chemical tetraphenylphosphonium bromide allowed most technetium-99 to be stored as solid waste rather than discharged as a liquid into the sea. Several of Britain's maritime neighbors, including Ireland and Norway, have expressed fears that the 57-year-old nuclear complex is polluting the oceans from its position on the northwest coast of England, on the narrow Irish Sea. Last month the European Union ordered Britain to clean up the plant, complaining that current conditions prevented E.U. safety inspectors from carrying out proper checks. Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik said he was happy with Britain's announcement. "The most important thing is that we now will see an end to radioactive emissions, which assures the purity of our common food source in the years to come," he said. "That means a great deal to Norway as a coastal nation, because many local communities depend on harvesting from the sea." Sellafield opened in 1947 and is responsible for reprocessing spent fuel from British nuclear power stations. Source: Associated Press