Nuclear UK

The UK, as home to the Sellafield site and other legacy sites of the Cold War arms race present special issues for worldwide nuclear safety. The UK is also active in worldwide nuclear fuel processing and intent on continuing a nuclear power plant built out. This section discusses these issues and how they affect the UK’s European neighbors.

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Nuclear UK

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November 19, 2012 Nuclear UK

Sellafield faces court action over alleged low level waste shipments to erroneous location

Sellafield Ltd., the operator the UK’s huge nuclear site in northern England – which handles various fuel cycle and waste…

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November 13, 2012 Nuclear UK

UK Member of Parliament calls Sellafield ‘intolerable risk’ as fiscal watchdog report cites uncertain clean up costs

Mounting cost are being posed by hazardous waste stored in run-down buildings at the aged Sellafield nuclear site, the UK’s…

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November 16, 2011 Nuclear UK

New nuclear power plant to sprout at Sellfield site despite decades of cleanup work ahead

NuGen, the British nuclear company charged with building an environmentally controversial new generation nuclear power plant in Cumbria – where…

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September 3, 2011 Nuclear UK

Sellafield to close its MOX plant as post-Fukushima orders from Japan dry up

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is resonating as far away as England where Britain’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)…

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August 4, 2011 Nuclear UK

Sellafield to close its MOX plant as post-Fukushima orders from Japan dry up

The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is resonating as far away as England where Britain’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA)…