The programme of returning solid Highly Active Waste (HAW) from Sellafield to overseas customers, announced in September last year, began this week. Read it all..

SL team and contracting partners start New Year by celebrating a decade of safe working.

The Solid Waste Operating Unit Project and Construction Team, has clocked up over 10 years of working without a lost time accident. The team from the waste effluent disposition directorate includes Sellafield Ltd, main contractor and sub-contractor personnel. Read it all..

WORK to decommission the Primary Separation Plant at Sellafield has taken a major step forward with the removal of the entire redundant inventory held in the top section of one of the process cells.  Read it all..

Press Release

A MAJOR milestone in radiological risk reduction and nuclear clean up has been reached on the Sellafield site.
 
Over 2,300 m3 of historic medium active (MA) solvent has now been transferred and processed through Sellafield’s Solvent Treatment Plant (STP), representing over ten years work by the teams involved. Read it all..

NDA Press release

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is pleased to announce that today, following a period of market engagement and negotiation with interested parties, it has sold an area of land comprising 190 ha (470 acres) lying to the north of the existing site at Sellafield in Cumbria for a value of at least £70 million. The winning consortium comprises Iberdrola S.A, GdF Suez S.A and Scottish and Southern Energy plc. Read it all..

The NDA has a duty to monitor the performance of all plants within its ownership and the performance of the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) has been of concern to the NDA since its formation in 2005. Read it all..

The transfer of material from one Calder Hall site analytical laboratory to another was 3 grams over what was specified in the Operating Rule, which as always is based on very conservative data. It was at all times safely contained within the transfer process system. Read it all..

Press Release NDA
For over 30 years, overseas used nuclear fuel has been reprocessed in the UK, under contract  at Sellafield, to separate and recover the reusable nuclear materials from the waste.  Since 1976 all UK reprocessing contracts have contained an option for this radioactive waste to be returned to its country of origin. In 1986 HM Government took the decision that this option should be exercised. Read it all..

Sellafield Ltd has worked very closely with several key stakeholders to find the best way of dealing with high burn up fuel. Read it all..

Sizewell A Nuclear Site, owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has begun defuelling with the first spent fuel flask since it ceased generating on 31 December 2006 being dispatched to Sellafield. Read it all..