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Now that the Government has blessed the plutonium processing plant at Windscale, how long will it be before we get electricity from plutonium? This depends on decisions being taken at Dounreay on the Pentland Firth.
Mary Goldring examines the progress of the fast-breeder reactor programme centred there. What are the engineering and cost problems? Should the programme be speeded up? What are the risks? What are the implications for the future of our whole energy policy? Producer TOM READ

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