Sellafield
Nuclear site in Cumbria
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| 2025 | The videogame 'Atomfall' was released, set in an alternate history featuring Sellafield's nuclear disasters. |
| January 2025 | UK government announces plans to immobilize and dispose of the 140-tonne civil plutonium stockpile in a geological disposal facility, abandoning previous plans to produce MOX fuel. |
| December 2023 | A significant radioactive leak was discovered in the Magnox swarf storage silo at Sellafield, with scientists predicting the leak will continue until 2050. Researchers are currently using statistical modeling to assess potential public risk. |
| December 2023 | Sellafield experienced a cyber attack suspected to be linked to Russian and Chinese hacking groups, with the breach first reported by The Guardian. The full extent and long-term implications of the attack remain unknown. |
| August 2023 | Work begins to retrieve waste from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo (PFCS), described as a 'momentous milestone' in Sellafield's decommissioning process, involving the first batch of waste retrieval from the site's oldest waste store created in the 1950s. |
| May 2023 | Sellafield Ltd removes a set of large, redundant steel tanks at the Fellside power station that were no longer in use. |
| 2022 | Stopped nuclear fuel reprocessing activities. |
| July 17 2022 | Magnox Reprocessing Plant completes its last batch of fuel after 58 years of operation, marking the end of reprocessing activities at Sellafield. |
| June 10 2022 | Sellafield Ltd announces the commencement of waste retrievals from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, with the process expected to take approximately 20 years. |
| 2021 | The Irish Department of Health advised that the previously distributed potassium iodate tablets could be disposed of with municipal waste. |
| June 2020 | UK government announced Sellafield as a site to house various clean nuclear technologies, including EDF's EPR reactor and Rolls-Royce SMR reactors, with plans to produce electricity and clean hydrogen. |
| 2018 | Moorside nuclear power plant project was terminated when Toshiba decided to close NuGen and withdraw from nuclear power plant construction in the UK. |
| 2018 | The First Generation Magnox Storage Pond is officially renamed from its original designation B30. |
| November 14 2018 | Operations at THORP officially ended. The facility will be used to store spent nuclear fuel until the 2070s. |
| 2016 | BBC Panorama produced a 30-minute documentary about dangerous accidents and incidents at Sellafield. |
| April 1 2016 | Sellafield Ltd becomes a direct subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority under a new management structure. |
| 2015 | BBC Four aired 'Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield', examining radiation leaks and incidents at the site. |
| January 13 2015 | NDA announces that Nuclear Management Partners will lose the management contract for Sellafield due to the site's complexity and technical challenges. |
| June 2011 | UK government confirmed the suitability of the Sellafield site for a nuclear power station, hoping an electricity generating company would build a power station at Moorside by 2025. |
| October 2010 | UK government announced Sellafield as one of eight possible sites suitable for future nuclear power stations. |
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