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 ...

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 ...

Drums of radioactive sludge from Sellafield's Pile Fuel Storage Pond - the world's oldest nuclear storage pond - have been processed in the site's encapsulation plant for the first time. The waste is ...

The area in which the pond is situated is so contaminated, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) workers are allowed just one hour per day exposure to the radiation. The discovery was made by the European ...

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, ...

Two new research papers from The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Sellafield Limited and the National Nuclear Laboratory show that microbes can actively colonise some of the most ...

One of the UK’s most important nuclear decommissioning projects has taken a giant leap forward. Workers at Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Storage Pond have now removed half of the solid waste in the facility.

Nothing is produced at Sellafield anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary ...

The first skip of nuclear waste has been removed as part of one of the "most challenging" phases of the clear-up at Sellafield. The zeolite skip is the first of 236 to be removed from the Magnox ...