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 reactors ...

A simulation of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - one of the oldest waste stores and one of the highest hazard facilities on the UK's Sellafield site - is making it safer to upgrade robots handling waste ...

The estimated GBP136 billion (USD184 billion) cost of decommissioning the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria would increase even more should work be further delayed, the UK House of Commons Public ...

The center for the UK's nuclear industry wasted £127 million ($172 million) during delays and replanning as it scrambled to find alternatives for facilities which treat and repackage plutonium, a ...

Sellafield Ltd has been fined £332,500 ($437,440) for cybersecurity failings running the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria, North-West England. The fine was issued by Westminster Magistrates ...

Nuclear waste processing facility Sellafield has been fined £332,500 ($440k) by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for failing to adhere to cybersecurity standards and putting sensitive nuclear ...

8 October 2003 – BNFL said Tuesday it had begun the trial of a chemical removal process that may significantly reduce the discharges of the radionuclide Tc-99 from it Sellafield nuclear reprocessing ...

A British government body tasked with cleaning up nuclear sites has opened a new cybersecurity hub designed to enhance knowledge sharing across the nuclear supply chain. The Nuclear Decommissioning ...

Cumbrian nuclear facility Sellafield is still under scrutiny for cyber security problems, despite the regulator’s clean bill of health for its physical security. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR ...

Under the 15-year Decommissioning and Nuclear Waste Partnership (DNWP), Amentum will carry out remediation work on disused facilities and retrieve hazardous waste from legacy ponds on the site in ...