Sellafield clean-up cost reaches £67.5billion

The cost of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear waste site has reached £67.5bn with no sign of when the cost will stop rising, according to a report.

The Public Accounts Committee's report said deadlines to clean the Cumbria site had been missed, leaving crucial...

MRWS has lost our trust says Friends charity
Cumbria-wide charity Friends of the Lake District calls for a ‘No’ vote to proceed to the next site selection stage (Stage 4) by the three decision ma...
Nuclear waste dump under Lake District - hundreds attend meeting to oppose plan
More than 500 people attended a meeting in Keswick to discuss their opposition to plans to bury radioactive waste under the Lake District or the Solwa...
Sellafield report is clarion call for improvements says Cumbria County Council
Cumbria County Council's Cabinet member responsible for nuclear issues says he is “deeply concerned” by a new report from the National Audit Office wh...
Residents of Cumbria put nuclear waste repository questions to panel in...
A panel of experts and community representatives faced questions from the public on Tuesday evening as part of an Internet discussion on issues relati...
New commuter train for West Cumbria
Carlisle-based DRS Rail Services is running a train between Carlisle and the Sellafield nuclear complex in west Cumbria. The train is made up of three...
Budding young newshounds are being challenged to create a report on underground...
Young people are being challenged to write or film a news report on the issues relating to West Cumbria’s potential involvement in the Government’s se...
Sellafield Ltd employee nominated for top national award
A celebrated Sellafield Ltd worker has been nominated for a top national award. Neil Brown has already won a host of awards for his outstanding performance during his Sellafield Ltd apprenticeship at...
Sellafield focused on collaboration
Progress on Sellafield Ltd’s R&D activities was under the spotlight recently when members of the Nuclear Waste Research Forum (NWRF) met for their quarterly meeting at Nuclear Decommissioning...
Low-level radioactive waste planning application rejected by councillors
A proposal to use a former open cast coal mine in West Cumbria as a site to store up to a million cubic metres of low-level radioactive waste for the next 50 years has been refused by county...
Local school benefits from educational workshops
The Sellafield Ltd Education team has successfully delivered another hands-on workshop to Key Stage 1 and 2 (KS) pupils at Flimby Primary School, Flimby. A return to the school on the 24 April...