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UK’s Most Hazardous Building Still Leaking Radioactive Water, MPs Warn

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UK’s Most Hazardous Building Still Leaking Radioactive Water, MPs Warn

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The Commons Public Accounts Committee criticised the speed of decommissioning work at the former nuclear power plant.See the Story

MPs Release Report Saying Sellafield Continues to Present 'Intolerable Risks'

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MPs Release Report Saying Sellafield Continues to Present 'Intolerable Risks'

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Britain’s most hazardous building could leak radioactive water until the 2050s as clean-up operations at Sellafield struggle to progress quickly enough, MPs have warned.See the Story

"The Most Dangerous Building in the United Kingdom": a Leak of Radioactive Liquid at a Nuclear Power Plant Gives Cause for Concern

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"The Most Dangerous Building in the United Kingdom": a Leak of Radioactive Liquid at a Nuclear Power Plant Gives Cause for Concern

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In Sellafield, the nuclear power plant, inaugurated in 1956, ceased to produce electricity in 2003, but the site is home to contaminated buildings, aging facilities and untreated waste.Read Article

Sellafield’s race against time: nuclear waste clean-up not going quickly enough, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warns

Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Chair of the Committee, said: “The intolerable risks presented by Sellafield’s ageing infrastructure are truly world-class. When visiting the site, it is impossible not to be struck by the fact that one can be standing in what is surely one of the most hazardous places in the world. “Our report contains too many signs that this is a race that Sellafield risks losing.” 4 June 2025, https://committees.parliament.uk/c…Infrastructure · Sellafield See the Story

Sellafield nuclear clean-up too slow and too costly, say MPs

Alex Lawson, 4 June 25 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/04/sellafield-nuclear-clean-up-mps-public-accounts-committee Parliamentary committee raises concerns over ‘suboptimal’ workplace culture at ageing waste dump. MPs have warned about the speed and cost of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear waste dump and raised concerns over a “suboptimal” workplace culture at the site. Members of parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC) urge…Sellafield · Sellafield Read Article

How does the nuclear industry get away with its persistent, repetitive lies?

Radiation Free Lakeland * nuclear landfill/geological dump * NO TA! Steve Wallis , 25 May 25 Thoughts on the nuclear industry and how it is “run” and perceived by the people who work in the industry and how it is “sold” to the public. An earlier thread details Trump’s executive orders re “new” nuclear and the lies spouting forth about new this, new safety that, and not like the other nukes nonsense. There are a few things that are very puzzling …Sellafield · Sellafield Read Article

Sellafield Plutonium treatment plant moves a step closer to completion

COMMENT. So now they think they can make more of the toxic stuff? And provide more dirty dangerous jobs for the boys? Sellafield Ltd and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority 15 May 2025 The Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP) is one of our largest and most complex construction projects. When finished it will play an essential role in managing the UK’s plutonium stockpile. The project celebrated an important milestone this w…Sellafield · Sellafield Read Article

Sellafield’s massive water abstraction plan for its new construction work has no environmental impact assessment and inadequate monitoring

Sellafield blithely apply to the Environment Agency for new water abstraction and in the same application admit that they have already contaminated the freshwater aquifer beneath them Lakes against Nuclear Dump and NFLA , Marianne Birkby, May 07, 2025 Campaigners concerned that Sellafield’s water abstraction plan has no environmental impact assessment and inadequate monitoring In a recent response to an Environment Agency consultation on a appli…Sellafield · Sellafield Read Article

The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo – Case study

The challenge One of our biggest challenges at Sellafield is the need to take waste out of our legacy ponds and silos. These buildings are our most hazardous nuclear facilities and weren’t designed with decommissioning in mind. The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo was built more than 70 years ago when the site’s purpose was to produce material for nuclear weapons. The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo under construction in 1951 The silo was built to store claddi…Sellafield · Sellafield Read Article

Sellafield’s ‘locked vault’ gives up its nuclear secrets – Asian News from UK

One of the most challenging puzzles in the UK’s nuclear clean-up programme is being solved Waste is now being routinely retrieved from one of the world’s oldest nuclear waste stores for the first time in its history. Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Cladding Silo has effectively been a locked vault since the 1970s. That was when waste stopped being tipped into its 6 compartments. After decades of work to figure out how to take waste from a building des…Sellafield · Sellafield Read Article

1960s vacuum found in radioactive waste at nuclear plant

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The domestic Electrolux cleaner was used at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria during the 1950s and 1960s.United States · United States See the Story

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