Nuclear reprocessing and waste treatment and storage site in Cumbria, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large nuclear site on the coast of Cumbria, England. Now it mostly does nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. It used to be a nuclear power plant from 1956 to 2003, and nuclear fuel reprocessing from 1952 to 2022. It is a big place, 265 hectares (650 acres), and has more than 200 nuclear facilities and more than 1,000 buildings.[1]
In December 2023, media wrote about a leak from a silo of radioactive waste.[2]
The leak has been known since 2019, according to a middle manager at Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority;[3] Furthermore, some radioactive water is leaking thru a crack in the silo; Furthermore, she says (in 2023) that the leak is not dangerous for Norway, and it has no consequence for Norway.
The silo in question is the Magnox swarf storage silo.[2]
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