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 ...

MONTREAL, Oct. 31, 2025 /CNW/ - AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. (TSX: ATRL), a world-class engineering services and nuclear company with offices around the world, has been appointed by Sellafield Ltd to a new ...

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group achieved the milestone at Sellafield, marking progress in long-term efforts to dispose of the UK’s plutonium stockpile. The processed material is now ...

A portion of "problematic plutonium" has safely been processed into a stable waste form in a UK first, a nuclear disposal group has said. The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the can ...

Sellafield in England is one of Europe’s largest and most complex nuclear power development sites, which is now focused on safely managing and storing nuclear waste and cleaning up contaminated ...

‘We understand that spent nuclear waste will generate residual heat, but experience in other areas (granite) suggests the ...

The UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced it has succeeded in safely processing a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time, marking a significant step toward ...

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 ...

Plans for an underground nuclear waste disposal site in the north of England have been vetoed by local councilors, leaving the UK government back at square one in its bid to find a suitable site for ...

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at a secure facility at Sellafield in Cumbria. The UK has the world's largest stockpile of the ...

24 March 2005 – BNFL said Wednesday that its engineers at Sellafield have pumped hundreds of cubic metres of radioactive waste from a tank used to store it for the last fifty years – the latest stage ...

A report by MPs has warned that one of Britain's most dangerous buildings may continue to leak radioactive water well into the 2050s, as decommissioning efforts at Sellafield struggle to keep pace.