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They will be replaced with two electric arc furnaces - one at Scunthorpe and one at Teesside.
Important bit of context there. The blast furnaces are currently uneconomic and environmentally unfriendly, although they produce higher grade steel. Tata is doing the same at Port Talbot.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sources at the Department for Business and Trade say the proposals are part of a plan to put the UK steel industry on a greener, more sustainable footing for the future.
Government sources claim that the blast furnace plants are not economic - they are losing £1m a day, they say - and are not "green", therefore making them unsustainable on financial and environmental grounds.
The government conceded that the plan to close the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe and Port Talbot will leave the UK without the ability to make "virgin steel".
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community, the specialist trade union representing UK steelworkers, said he was "deeply concerned" by the plans to switch to only electric arc furnaces, which he described as "dangerous and foolhardy".
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, warned: "Workers won't stand back and watch as Britain's steel industry is dismantled in real time."
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