At the heart of our efforts to remove the Windscale Pile 1 chimney is SPIDA: the Suspended Platform with Incremental Descent Developed by ADAPT. It’s not just a machine - it’s a symbol of how Sellafield Ltd is using innovation and rigorous testing to tackle one of the site’s most complex decommissioning challenges.
Before we were Sellafield, we were Windscale. Today our brilliant people and supply chain partners have a different challenge – how do we safely decommission these legacy facilities?
As we celebrate routinely retrieving waste from the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, we talk to some of the people behind the progress.
The Pile Fuel Cladding Silo at Sellafield, one of the oldest and most hazardous waste stores on the site, has been a focal point for decommissioning efforts.
John Heneghan, one of our contaminated land specialists, explains what pioneering ways him and his team are discovering, in order to manage ground contamination work.
In the UK, we’ve been doing things that generate radioactive waste for decades – including electricity generation, medical treatments, defence, and a whole range of other activities. It’s important to keep track of all that waste. For me, it wasn’t …
Yn y DU, rydyn ni wedi bod yn gwneud pethau sy’n cynhyrchu gwastraff ymbelydrol ers degawdau – yn cynnwys cynhyrchu trydan, triniaethau meddygol, amddiffyn ac amrywiaeth o weithgareddau eraill. Mae’n bwysig ein bod ni’n gadw golwg ar yr holl wastraff …
When I talk to people about our plans for the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste, one question I often hear is: what’s wrong with the way we handle the waste now? It’s a fair question. There are stores of radioactive …
I started as Chief Scientific Adviser for Radioactive Waste Management in 2011, but I first began working on the UK’s geological disposal programme when it was just starting in the mid-1980s. At the time, I was working in computer programming, …
Once built, a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) will be part of the lifeblood of the community that hosts it for well over a century, providing thousands of skilled jobs over multiple generations. The surrounding area will draw in resources, goods …
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