ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners called for the closure of the Thorp reprocessing plant at the Sellafield nuclear complex yesterday amid claims that a leak of radioactive material had been discovered.The controversial pounds 1.8 billion Thorp plant - which reprocesses oxide fuel from nuclear stations around ...
The closure is a consequence of theFukushima incident in Japanin March, which has closed down much of the nuclear industry there and led to a rethink ofnuclear poweraround the world. But the government said the move had “no implications” for the UK’s plans for new nuclear reactors. via...
A key part of the UK's nuclear industrial heritage, Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, was opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in October 1953 and continued to generate electricity until its closure in 2003. Following the decision to decommission the Calder ...
Together these sites are known as the Sellafield group of sites, and represent about 70% of the UK Civil Nuclear Liabilities. In 2000, a programme of work began to amalgamate a number of business units, and to provide an integrated planning and costing system for the...
Together they are developing alternative and innovative technologies and methods of dealing with the legacy stocks of special wastes at West Cumbria's nuclear sites.Ken RiddellGrant HollisMark EilbeckThe transition to closure and legacy management: 2005 ANS topical meeting on decommissioning, ...
because it went unobserved apparently for a significant period of time."Two Sellafield bosses were suspended after the massive radioactive leak at the nuclear power station.Both senior managers in charge of operations at the THORP reprocessing plant were ordered to stay at home on full pay pending...