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.
To mark International Women’s Day, Laura Hogg shares her story of entering the nuclear sector at 18 and her subsequent itinerant career around the NDA group: Throughout my career, I have been inspired, motivated and supported by some exceptional people …
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.
A Geological Disposal Facility – or GDF – is the best solution to permanently dispose of our most radioactive waste. We’ve developed a robust process for choosing where a GDF could be built and at the moment, we’re actively engaging …
We’ve reached the last instalment of our Strategy Series! Over the course of the last few months, we’ve dissected our corporate strategy with some of our best experts, and as we step into 2024, we’ve got some exciting plans. Our …
Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is more than nuclear waste management. It’s about ensuring a safer future for us all by protecting our planet through better human stewardship. I passionately believe in the importance of innovative and strategic nuclear decommissioning and …
Last year, 44% of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group's nuclear graduate programme intake and 30% of apprentices across all companies were women. Statistics like these are fantastic and give me so much pride to be working in a dynamic …
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