Since the global outbreak of COVID-19, Sellafield Ltd says it has taken some precautionary actions at its site in north-west England, including the controlled shutdown of the Magnox Reprocessing Plant ...

A facility to encapsulate legacy materials from Magnox fuel stored at the UK's Sellafield site will be built by a French-British joint venture under a contract worth up to £1.2 billion. A facility to ...

Chinese and Russian attacks on critical infrastructure were thrust into attention this week after a newspaper report alleged international hackers had compromised IT systems at a major nuclear site in ...

Sellafield has been called the most dangerous place in the UK, the most hazardous place in Europe and the world’s riskiest nuclear waste site. At its heart is a giant pond full of radioactive sludge, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 10, 1957, a hidden disaster unfolded at the Windscale nuclear facility in the coastal town of Cumbria, Northwest ...

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Seventy tonnes of radioactive waste have been removed from a nuclear site's most hazardous building. Teams at Sellafield in Cumbria have removed the waste from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silos with the ...

MPs have warned of a “sub-optimal” culture at the UK’s most hazardous waste site following whistleblower allegations. Sellafield in Cumbria is managed by the Nuclear Decomissioning Authority (NDA) and ...