Sellafield Ltd

Time to come home
Posted by: Dave Henderson
06 November 2008
Wednesday
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Learning a lot
Posted by: Dave Henderson
05 November 2008
Tuesday
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Monday in Knoxville
Posted by: Dave Henderson
04 November 2008
Haven’t slept very well, due to a number of things. First of all, I can hear freight trains blowing their horns as they pass through in the distance, ...
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Off to Knoxville
Posted by: Dave Henderson
01 November 2008
Saturday
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Hello again
Posted by: Nick Speed-Andrews
08 September 2008
Hello again,
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Life as a Sellafield firefighter
Posted by: Nick Speed-Andrews
03 September 2008
As a firefighter at Sellafield, I don’t seem to travel to as many exotic places, nor meet as many famous people as some of the other “bloggers” clearly ...
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Claire and the city!
Posted by: Claire James
10 June 2008
Claire and the City
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A very special visitor
Posted by: Linda Shields
09 June 2008
It took 300 years before queen came to Whitehaven and gave her blessing to the special relationship between the USA and the UK.
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Tuesday 11 March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
12 March 2008
Today is Forensic science day where we will be working with pupils from both Orgill primary and St Patrick’s Cleator Moor. This is only the second time we’ve ...
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Monday 10th March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
12 March 2008
Having hung around for several hundred years Galileo is in a hurry all of a sudden and rings us twice on our way down to Millom school!
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Friday 7th March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
07 March 2008
Today is the first day of national science week and we have two events on, so a busy day ahead. Having worried about the box of worms being ...
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Thursday 6th March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
06 March 2008
Am: I’m joined by works other half John Heywood and my partner in grime Cheryl Ireland to get busy chopping card up for our fingerprint workshop, cutting out ...
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Tuesday 4th March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
04 March 2008
Millie Clarke, Yottenfews environmental co-ordinator popped in to order supplies for use during wet weather.
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Monday 3rd March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
03 March 2008
Spent the morning writing notes for FOCUS stories for science week and the evening at Cockermouth school at a very entertaining science presentation where their Head of Chemistry ...
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Sat 1st March
Posted by: Pauline Farrell
01 March 2008
National Science and Engineering Week (7th – 14th march) is fast looming and I’m thinking maybe it’s time to get organised. With that in mind I hot foot ...
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Time to go home
Posted by: Tom Luke
28 February 2008
At last, after being down for a week and a half (typical 'African time'), the computer system at Lebone is back on line!
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A sad day
Posted by: Tom Luke
25 February 2008
Monday morning, sadness in the Nursery School, a little girl who had only started there last week died on Saturday. This is one of the sad realities of ...
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Presenting football shirts
Posted by: Tom Luke
18 February 2008
Saturday off, so we spent the day in Bloemfontein shopping, drinking and eating, which is highly recommended with English wages and South African prices! Having a huge steak ...
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A very humbling experience
Posted by: Tom Luke
15 February 2008
Thursday 14th, taken on trip to local Township (Squatter Camp), to show everyone just where the children come from. Saw mile after mile of small tin shacks, with ...
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What a packed day...
Posted by: Karl Connor
12 February 2008

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Fires, school runs and safari
Posted by: Tom Luke
12 February 2008
Friday 6th Feb, busy day today - began clearing out an old room full of rubbish to make a library for the kids. Jan sorted everything out, whilst ...
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What a packed day!
Posted by: Karl Connor
12 February 2008
Wow, what a packed day.
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A press officer in Prague
Posted by: Karl Connor
11 February 2008
I only found out that I was heading out to the PIME conference on communications in the nuclear industry, on Friday lunch time, so instead of my usual ...
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The school run... but not as you know it!
Posted by: Tom Luke
11 February 2008
Off to Lebone House early this morning to begin work. Apart from the work they do with children, there is also a Skills Centre where adults from the ...
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The first leg
Posted by: Tom Luke
11 February 2008
Five of us set off on Monday 5th on the first leg of a journey that was to take a total of 28 hours to complete.
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'John' - a japanese household dog!!
Posted by: John Clarke
14 January 2008
Over dinner on Thursday evening one of our Japanese guests noted that there were four 'John's' present - three travellers and one from our Tokyo office. We commented ...
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Last day in Japan
Posted by: John Clarke
10 January 2008
Same strange sleeping pattern last night, waking up frequently but getting back to sleep quickly and getting a decent amount in total. It seems most of my colleagues ...
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This is Japan calling...
Posted by: John Clarke
09 January 2008
It appears that I slept a little better than most my colleagues last night. After a pizza for supper it was an early night. Although I woke several ...
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This is my first attempt at being a blogger.
Posted by: John Clarke
08 January 2008
This is my first attempt at being a blogger. In fact I've only ever read one other - Barry Snelson's from Buckingham Palace. My location is not quite ...
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Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Karl Connor
19 December 2007
It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog – and I thought I’d better update you all before the Christmas break.
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Back on track
Posted by: Alex
14 December 2007
After being so disheartened by yesterday’s task I wasn’t looking forward to work at all. Anyways, I sign in, sit at my computer, and find out that the ...
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From great to not so great
Posted by: Alex
14 December 2007
Today didn’t really compare to all the other two. I continued my research on cutting metals which I didn’t mind at all. I also helped Eric out by ...
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An interesting day at the plant
Posted by: Bob Jones
14 December 2007
We’ve reached the stage where we are trying to firm up on the Areas for Improvement. Lots of constructive challenge between the counterparts (from the plant who are ...
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Food for thought
Posted by: Bob Jones
12 December 2007
Bonjour mes amis.
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Time to get my hands dirty
Posted by: Alex
12 December 2007
I’m all ready for my second day of work and I am rather looking forward to it. After not too much on the agenda yesterday I was promised ...
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Suffering from man-flu
Posted by: Bob Jones
11 December 2007
A long day – especially since I am suffering from man-flu! It began with a 0430 start to drive to Manchester for a 0900 flight to Paris and ...
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A new environment
Posted by: Alex
11 December 2007
My first day began with uncertainty as I had absolutely no idea of what to expect or what I’d be doing. As I enter the building I am ...
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This weekend will be a bit hectic
Posted by: Bob Jones
08 December 2007
This weekend will be a bit hectic – getting ready for Christmas and joining the final week of WANO Peer Review at Blayais Nuclear Power Plant, an EDF Station in ...
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My final day
Posted by: Jayde
07 December 2007
This was my last day working at Sellafield Ltd with the communications team, but I still didn’t get any rest. It was non stop work. I started proof ...
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One more day to go.......
Posted by: Jayde
06 December 2007
Today I mainly worked with money and numbers. I rather enjoyed it which surprised me seeing as I absolutely hate maths. Firstly I came in and set to ...
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Half way through the week....
Posted by: Jayde
05 December 2007
Today, I had a number of jobs I had to do and after arriving half asleep I really thought the day was going to drag. But there was ...
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My second day of work experience
Posted by: Jayde
04 December 2007
This morning began with me sampling some of the company’s educational CD’s on the computer and I found them useful as I have my science mock in a ...
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My first day at Sellafield Ltd.
Posted by: Jayde
03 December 2007
I wasn't sure what my first day at Sellafield Ltd was going to be like. I have never had a job before such as a paper round or ...
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Back by popular demand...
Posted by: Karl Connor
29 November 2007
Well I’m half way through week two, and the blog continues, dare I say it due to popular demand. I’m reliably informed that the only thing that got ...
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Here to stay
Posted by: Karl Connor
26 November 2007
By Friday I really felt like I was settling into my new surroundings. I was in the press office on my on for most of the afternoon, and ...
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Getting to know Sellafield
Posted by: Karl Connor
23 November 2007
Day four! Today I had a site familiarisation visit, which I had been looking forward to.
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Calm under pressure?
Posted by: Karl Connor
22 November 2007
Day three was the most exciting yet – after arriving bright and early I headed straight out on a Sellafield Site Emergency Exercise.
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There is a lot to learn
Posted by: Karl Connor
21 November 2007
I’ve worked in newspapers for such a long time that I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I headed down for my first day as a Sellafield ...
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As bak yam marra
Posted by: Jackie Banks
13 November 2007
So here I am back at work...
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My fellow peer reviewers...
Posted by: Jackie Banks
09 November 2007
I thought that I would have a day off blogging today and let my fellow peers have their say…
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When in Rome...
Posted by: Jackie Banks
08 November 2007
This has been the best day so far, I did all the legwork yesterday so I have got my review nailed. I got finished by 1700 tonight then ...
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Is that Elvis?
Posted by: Jackie Banks
07 November 2007
We had another early start and a very full day concentrating on each area to be inspected. In practical terms this means a day talking to the plant ...
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Barry's Blog
Posted by: Barry Snelson
07 November 2007
I am told a ‘blog’ is a diary and that people would like to hear what it feels like to receive an honour such as an MBE. There ...
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Nice photo!
Posted by: Jackie Banks
05 November 2007
We had our first day at the plant today. We started a 0800 and spent most of the morning with the logistics of working at a foreign nuclear ...
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Today has really been about people.
Posted by: Jackie Banks
04 November 2007
I was up early this morning for my 0630 flight check in and my plane was delayed slightly. This must really annoy the Swiss! I arrived in Zurich ...
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Well here I am sitting in an airport hotel...
Posted by: Jackie Banks
03 November 2007
Well here I am sitting in an airport hotel. I’ve got an early start tomorrow morning with a 0630 check in for my flight. Feeling a bit guilty ...
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