What do Sellafield Ltd do?

What we do. From cleaning-up the country’s highest nuclear risks and hazards to safeguarding nuclear fuel, materials and waste, our work is nationally important. We do this work on behalf of our owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Is Sellafield still operational?

This facility completely closed in 2015, was briefly used by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary as a training facility, and as of 2019 the building has been completely demolished.

What is stored at Sellafield?

There are more than 1,000 nuclear facilities. Sellafield is the largest nuclear site in Europe and the most complicated nuclear site in the world. By its own admission, it is home to one of the largest inventories of untreated waste, including 140 tonnes of civil plutonium, the largest stockpile in the world.

What happens if Sellafield is bombed?

A terrorist attack on Sellafield could render the north of England uninhabitable and release 100 times the radioactivity produced by the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986, the House of Commons defence committee was told yesterday.

What would happen if Sellafield exploded?

Can Sellafield be bombed?

Why did Sellafield Visitors Centre close?

Currently, however, most of the Visitor Centre is closed and renamed just Sellafield Centre. According to the Sellafield site management’s own website it’s due to “ongoing maintenance work”. According to Wikipedia the closurem was due to deteriorated popularity.

Who owns the Sellafield site?

The NDA owns the Sellafield site and its liabilities, and owns all of the shares in Sellafield Ltd, which is responsible for the safe and secure operation and management of the site. ^ Griffiths, Katherine (23 August 2006). “Anger as nuclear sell-off is shelved”.

What is Sellafield doing to improve D&I?

Our executive team has just approved a new 7-year strategic approach to D&I at Sellafield. Its focus is simple: ‘Respected. Included. Performing at our best.’ This builds on our previous D&I strategies over the past 5 years.

How can we keep Sellafield safe and secure?

Keeping Sellafield safe and secure is our priority and governs the decisions that we make every day. One of the ways that we can make Sellafield safer is by removing the nuclear risks and hazards posed by our oldest building; the legacy ponds and silos.

Is there a leak from the Sellafield silo?

Silo liquid imbalance – Level 2 Routine liquor level monitoring on the Sellafield site has indicated there has been a recent leak from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, a legacy storage facility which is a priority for decommissioning. In the 1970s there was a confirmed leak at the same plant and recent data suggests that this has reoccurred.