The first 100 tonnes of contaminated equipment that has laid for decades in the Pile Fuel Storage Pond at the Sellafield site in the UK has been retrieved for final disposal. The first 100 tonnes of ...

The world’s largest open air nuclear storage pond will be decommissioned, in an effort to make the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, U.K. safer, the BBC reported. Built in 1948, the Pile Fuel ...

Operations have started to remove nuclear fuel from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) at the Sellafield site in the UK. The move marks the first time that fuel has been retrieved from the pond since ...

The 29-tonne self-shielded boxes are placed at Sellafield’s new interim storage facility The first skip of nuclear waste has been removed as part of one of the "most challenging" phases of the ...

Work has begun to remove sludge from an old storage pond at one of the most hazardous nuclear plants in Europe, Sellafield in Cumbria. Around 1,500 cubic metres of radioactive material is being ...

Sellafield has been called the most dangerous place in the UK, the most hazardous place in Europe and the world’s riskiest nuclear waste site. At its heart is a giant pond full of radioactive sludge, ...

It’s a huge moment in one of the site’s most challenging decommissioning programmes. Operators have removed the first zeolite skip from Sellafield’s First Generation Magnox Storage Pond. The teams ...

The world's largest open air nuclear storage pond, at Sellafield in Cumbria, is being decommissioned to make the site "safer". The Pile Fuel Storage Pond, built in 1948, was originally used to store ...

The chief executive of Sellafield has hit back at reports that computer systems at the nuclear site in Cumbria have been hacked. Euan Hutton told the BBC there was no evidence of Sellafield's IT ...