Enterprise Minister Mary O’Rourke has stated Ireland is determined to have Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant shut down.
Minister O’Rourke is in Oslo to collaborate with the Norwegians on a bid to have the issue of radioactive discharges into the Irish Sea raised at a conference of North Sea nations next week.
Norway is worried about the effects the plant’s discharges are having on its multi-million euro seaweed and fishing industries.
After a meeting with Norway’s environment minister, Borge Brende, Mrs O’Rourke said she will be legally pursuing the closure of Sellafield.