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SITE NEWS
Tuesday 9th March 2010
Highly active waste arrives in Japan
The first shipment of highly active waste (HAW) from Sellafield has arrived safely in Japan.
SITE NEWS
Tuesday 9th March 2010
Energize makes final again
Sellafield Ltd’s Stakeholder Relations team are celebrating this week having been short-listed for a CiB North West award for their internal newspaper, Energize.
SITE NEWS
Tuesday 9th March 2010
Joint nuclear waste and safety conference in Brussels
Lofoten mot Sellafield, Bellona and Sellafield Ltd have held their latest conference on nuclear waste and safety in Europe and Sellafield, in Brussels.
SITE NEWS
Friday 26th February 2010
Spring Supplier Forum hailed a success
Sellafield Ltd’s latest Supplier Forum has been hailed as the best yet – with 500 people from a range of supply chain companies in attendance.
SITE NEWS
Monday 22nd February 2010
102 tonne shield door is loaded into place on EPS3 project
A major milestone in the construction of the Encapsulation Product Store 3 (EPS3) was achieved at Sellafield recently when a 600 tonnes crawler crane was used to lift the 102 tonnes shield door into the plant.
SITE NEWS
Tuesday 16th February 2010
Decommissioning of Primary Separation Plant continues
Comprising over 100 tonnes of steelwork, brick and concrete, six instrument bulges historically used to extract process liquor for analysis in Sellafield’s primary separation plant have been removed from the facility and the waste treated accordingly, ahead of the planned schedule.
SITE NEWS
Wednesday 3rd February 2010
Capenhurst ladies promote working in the nuclear industry
At the end of January four ladies from the Capenhurst team took time out to chat to over 100 female students at the Manchester Creative and Media Academy for girls, about the opportunities for females working in the nuclear industry.
SITE NEWS
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Decommissioning of historic waste store picks up pace
Using over 90 tonnes of steel and delivered three weeks earlier than planned, an important decommissioning project that will enable historic waste retrieval operations to commence has taken a major step forward.
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Friday 22nd January 2010
Highly active waste departs UK for Japan
Sellafield Ltd’s transport of highly active waste (HAW) has departed the UK.
SITE NEWS
Wednesday 20th January 2010
Highly Active Waste returns from Sellafield to overseas customers begins
The programme of returning solid Highly Active Waste (HAW) from Sellafield to overseas customers has commenced.
SITE NEWS
Wednesday 6th January 2010
Highly active waste to be repatriated from Sellafield to overseas customers
The programme of returning solid Highly Active Waste (HAW) from Sellafield to overseas customers will commence shortly. In the near future we will announce the name of the vessel, the departure port, the departure date, the route and the approximate time of arrival.
SITE NEWS
Monday 4th January 2010
Uranium sent to Russia
Sellafield Ltd has exported a shipment of reprocessed uranium to Russia for processing to allow its manufacture into new fuel. The uranium is owned by European reprocessing customers in Germany and the Netherlands and is the eighth such shipment of material from Thorp.
