Within a week of Parliament giving the go-ahead for the world's largest nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Windscale, Cumbria, Britain and Japan signed a £500 million contract which will help pay for the plant and give Japan the right to transport 1600 tonnes of spent fuel to the UK. The plant is not yet built, however, and opposition to it among an increasing number of MPs has been both strong and vocal. Here Nigel Forman, MP, Joint Secretary of the Conservative Back Bench Energy Committee, voices his own disquiet