Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.

Sellafield is no longer the country’s best kept nuclear secret. It’s where we’re tackling the legacy of the past, building a capability for the future, and where we’re creating a clean and safe...

We’re creating a clean and safe environment for future generations. Sellafield Ltd works with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority .

Sellafield Ltd is a British nuclear decommissioning Site Licence Company (SLC) controlled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), a UK government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004.

2 days ago · Sellafield head Euan Hutton said the leak did not "pose a detriment to the public". The silo contains Magnox fuel cladding, mostly made up of magnesium, which was removed from nuclear fuel rods.

Jan 21, 2025 · The focus of Sellafield Ltd is now on the remediation and clean-up of the hundreds of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities across the site; safe and secure storage of special nuclear materials; and the safe retrieval of nuclear waste from the legacy ponds and silos, for storage in modern facilities.

Jan 15, 2025 · On October 10, 1957, a hidden disaster unfolded at the Windscale nuclear facility in the coastal town of Cumbria, Northwest England. Initially undetected, a fire erupted in one of the two...

2 days ago · Remote-controlled robot dogs could help decommission the defunct Sellafield nuclear plant after successful trials. Operators working from the Westlakes Science Park in Whitehaven, around eight miles from Sellafield, remotely operated “safely and securely” a custom Boston Dynamics Spot Quadrupedal Robot ‘dog’ that could carry out tasks such as remote …

Dec 20, 2024 · Sellafield is a large and complex site and one of Europe's largest industrial complexes, managing more radioactive waste in one place than any other nuclear facility in the world. Information on our regulation of Sellafield.

1 day ago · Sellafield Ltd, part of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which is responsible for decommissioning 17 legacy nuclear sites across the UK, has been using quadrupedal robots for the past two years through the RAICo programme. More recently Sellafield has been working with AtkinsRéalis on the integrated remote monitoring project to ...