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Tue 08 Aug 2003Sellafield's Thorp plant to close in seven yearsThe Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield, once hailed by British Nuclear Fuels as the saviour of Britain's nuclear industry, is to close within seven years.The plant in Cumbria, located on the coast of the Irish Sea, cost €2,571 million and was opened just nine years ago with the promise that it would help produce limitless electricity throughout the 21st century.