Sellafield Ltd is the company responsible for safely delivering decommissioning, reprocessing, nuclear waste management and fuel manufacturing activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

Now under the ownership of Nuclear Management Partners, Sellafield Ltd has the largest concentration of nuclear expertise in Europe, with over 50 years of experience.

THE

CHALLENGE

REDUCING RISK

Delivering on a commitment to the public and environment, we are reducing the hazard and risk from historic nuclear liabilities on the Sellafield site.

Waste management / EHS&Q / Decommissioning

ACCELERATION

We have made visible progress in the field of high hazard and risk reduction; our key site priority. There are many challenges ahead and we are confident that we can continue to deliver excellent results, and deliver them safely.

Decommissioning / What we do / Featured projects

PRODUCTION

ACHIEVEMENTS

Our achievements include the production of more than 5,000 containers of solid high level waste, reprocessing over 50,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel and processing over 3,000m³ of historic radioactive solvent stocks.

Featured projects / Media centre / Reprocessing

COMMITMENT

We are committed to setting the pace for safety and environmental care in nuclear clean-up; demanding the highest standards in all areas of our operations.

EHS&Q / What we do / Environmental monitoring

CAPABILITY

EXPERTISE

Under the ownership of NMP - an international consortium comprising of American, French and British expertise, we are combining our skills and experience with international capability to deliver high hazard risk reduction. Executive team / Company profile / What we do

  • Nuclear Management Partners
  • URS - Washington Division
  • Amec
  • Areva
SKILL BASE

With 36% of Britain's civil nuclear industry and almost half of the UK's nuclear workforce based in West Cumbria, Sellafield Ltd employs the most highly skilled nuclear workers in the world.

Careers / Our people / Company profile

Our Sites

Sellafield Site

Measuring 6 sq miles, the Sellafield site is home to over one thousand nuclear facilities including the Magnox and Thorp reprocessing plants, the Sellafield MOX plant and a range of nuclear waste treatment facilities.

Capenhurst Site

The Capenhurst site stores the bulk of the UK's inventory of depleted uranium and uranium hexafluoride; products that are potentially reusable in the nuclear fuel cycle, subject to UK government policy.

Hinton House, Risley

The Risley site is home to our engineering design capability as well as a number of support functions including our legal, human resources, communications and finance teams.

News

Historic radioactive waste store meets the mark

Wednesday 1st September 2010

Ten years of improvement work have been rewarded when a radioactive waste store dating back to the 1950s received approval for its continued safe operation as an interim beta gamma waste store.   This achievement is all the more impressive as the building was never designed to store this type of ...