Over 120 reactors are now shutdown and are planned to be decommissioned across the UK and Europe. This will result in a large amount of materials which will need to be diverted from landfills and repository.

Steel production accounts for 8% of total global CO2 emissions which must drastically decrease to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Volume of waste from decommissioned nuclear plants in the UK will be growing 5X over the next 30 years.

Limited market capacity related to nuclear metal recycling in Europe, with only 3 operational metal melters, insufficient to meet the growth in demand that decommissioning will bring.

In the UK, there are a total of 120 steam generators, totaling an estimated 60,000 tonnes, that will need to be recycled over the next 30 years.