Malcolm Miller

This article is part of the Nuclear Spin project of Spinwatch.

Background

Miller is the Director and General Manager of the Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited and head of International Transport, for the British Nuclear Group. He is also Chairman of the World Nuclear Transport Institute (WNTI) in London, and a Director of BNFL SA in Paris.

The Defective MOX Scandal

Miller was in charge of BNFL's Marine Transport business in 2002 when a shipment of defective radioactive plutonium and uranium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel was transported from Japan back to the UK by BNFL's nuclear freighters Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal.

The MOX fuel, originally delivered to Japan in 1999, was rejected by Kansai Electric Power Company when BNFL employees were found to have falsified data sheets related to the manual confirmation of automated checks during the manufacturing process. BNFL agreed to compensate Kansai and return the fuel to the United Kingdom at its cost.