Sellafield

It marks one of the final steps in Sellafield’s transformation towards becoming a site that is solely focused on decommissioning

The Public Accounts Committee has warned the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority cannot be complacent

Firms from Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria are building boxes to store radioactive materials from the site

It promises to transform the decommissioning of the redundant nuclear plant

It aims to help secure inward investment and reduce the economic challenge of over-reliance on the local nuclear industry

The highly radioactive ‘liquor’ has been in storage for several decades

The National Audit Office says the site is still facing continued delays

The charges relate to an incident on 5th February 2017 at a facility that handles special nuclear materials

A producer of automated handling systems is to open a new facility in Cumbria as a part of a long-term investment in the UK. PaR Systems aims to open the site this year and has recently agreed to an extended framework agreement supporting nuclear decommissioning at Sellafield. The firm says the new facility will give […]

Five projects have been awarded a total of £8.5 million to develop robots that can tackle some of Sellafield’s most radioactive hotspots. The robots controlled by smart auto navigation systems made it through to the final stages from a shortlist of 15, each receiving up to £1.5 million to build prototype demonstrators for testing in a simulated […]