Pressure Increases to End Nuclear Reprocessing. 90% of radioactive pollution of the northeast Atlantic comes from the Sellafield (UK) and La Hague (France) reprocessing plants for spent nuclear fuel. Now, but for the abstention of Luxembourg, the other countries with northeast Atlantic concerns are unanimously urging a move to dry storage of spent nuclear fuel instead of reprocessing. No comment from the UK or France yet. In the early ’90’s, this watchdog group was successful in pushing through a ban on direct sea dumping of nuclear wastes, which had been rampant up to that point. The UK and France, which initially opposed that earlier ban, joined in within a year. Recall that Sellafield’s viability is already questioned on fiscal grounds, far more persuasive than environmental concerns are to the nuclear industry. Also recall that Germany recently became the first industrialized state to resolve to totally decommission its nuclear power-generating capacity.