A nuclear site's emergency siren may be heard this week, residents have been warned. Sellafield, based in Seascale, Cumbria, is due to hold an emergency exercise on Wednesday. The siren, which can be ...

The roof of the Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP), in Cumbria, has been sealed with a concrete pour meaning the building can now be fitted with infrastructure and equipment.

This week the Guardian has been running a series of exposés about safety at Sellafield, the nuclear waste reprocessing plant on the west coast of Cumbria, some 130km from Co Down as the crow ...

It is January in northwest England: the Cumbrian countryside, 1.5km from the main gate of the Sellafield nuclear facility, the most toxic and dangerous site in western Europe. The officer ...

A vacuum cleaner was among radioactive waste retrieved from a nuclear store which was never intended to be reopened. Sellafield's Pile Fuel Cladding Silo has been a locked vault since waste ...

Sources told the newspaper that hacks were detected as early as 2015, and that malware had been "embedded in Sellafield's computer networks." A general view of the Sellafield nuclear plant on ...

The National Audit Office (NAO) says Sellafield, the UK’s most complex and challenging nuclear site, in Cumbria, is not yet achieving value for money. A new report by the NAO says this is due to ...

Alison McDermott, an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion expert, has been ordered to pay £5,000 following a whistleblowing claim she brought against Sellafield, a former HR director at the Cumbrian ...

LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Britain's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) fined nuclear waste processing firm Sellafield Ltd 332,500 pounds ($440,795) for cybersecurity shortfalls over a four-year ...

Sellafield Ltd, which is in charge of managing and cleaning up the nuclear waste site in Cumbria, north-west England, was on Wednesday ordered to pay prosecutors’ costs of £53,253, as well as a ...