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Wed 05 May 2004Costs issue in Sellafield case is adjournedThe issue of costs - believed to be in the region of €l million - following a 10-year legal battle in High Court proceedings against the Attorney General and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) at Sellafield, Cumbria, was adjourned by Mr Justice Peart yesterday.Last February the judge found that the High Court did not have jurisdiction to decide if the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield should have been subject to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in line with EU directives.