Highly dangerous plutonium canisters are “decaying faster than anticipated” at the Sellafield nuclear plant and present an “intolerable risk” if they started to leak, the spending watchdog ...

Professor 'Jim' Al'Khalili's 'Inside Sellafield' programme was a tour de force of pro-nuclear propaganda, writes David Lowry - understating the severity of accidents, concealing the role of the UK's ...

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group has today announced a pioneering partnership which will see innovative ...

The Sellafield plant for reprocessing nuclear fuel in northwest England is unable to account for about 30 kilograms of the plutonium it handled in 2004. That amount would be enough to make seven ...

Professor 'Jim' Al'Khalili's 'Inside Sellafield' programme was a tour de force of pro-nuclear propaganda, writes David Lowry - understating the severity of accidents, concealing the role of the UK's ...

The end of MOX production at Sellafield puts Britain’s huge plutonium stockpile in the spotlight. Credit: C. Furlong/Getty Images ...

Wednesday evening saw a repeat of a BBC4 programme I missed when it originally aired back in August. Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield was an hour-long retrospective on the UK’s nuclear ...

Plutonium has accumulated at Sellafield for decades as a byproduct of spent nuclear fuel. The government had been exploring the possibility of reusing the stockpile as mixed oxide fuel (MOX), in which ...

New technology for mapping plutonium hotspots is being tested at the Sellafield fuel cycle site in Cumbria, UK. The technology, developed by Cavendish Nuclear, could lead to the faster, safer and ...

Work has started on a five-year GBP1 billion (USD1.21 billion) programme to address an identified degradation risk in a small proportion of plutonium canisters stored at Sellafield in northwest ...

THE Government has announced it will dispose of 140 tonnes of plutonium being stored at Sellafield – but some have questioned the decision. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the ...

In terms of energy production, one gram of plutonium is the equivalent of 8,000 barrels of oil, with 140-plus tonnes at Sellafield, we are sitting on a beach of gold. “We have been let down by ...