Former UK prime minister Tony Blair recently argued nuclear power is an “essential part of the answer” to net zero. Writing ...

For the first time, Sellafield safely removed certain types of hazardous waste, including in March 2024 removing a zeolite skip, used to absorb radiation, from the First Generation Magnox Storage ...

The Magnox Swarf Storage Silo is considered Sellafield's most hazardous building A longstanding radioactive leak at a nuclear plant's storage silo appears to have slowed down, a report has said.

Magnox, owner of the Trawsfynydd site in Gwynedd, is aiming to demolish and infill the site’s ponds complex before capping it with concrete. In two scenarios – for future site occupiers and ...

Wylfa Nuclear Power Station began operation in 1971 as the UK’s largest plant running on Magnox reactors. It was initially set to permanently retire in 2010 but received extensions until it was ...

Sellafield also grants The Irish Times access to the old Thorp reprocessing plant, the Magnox East River fuel rod storage plant and the Sixep effluent facility that, like a nuclear kidney ...

It is next to the site of two former Magnox reactors that closed in 2012 and 2015, the last Magnox reactors in Britain. Great British Nuclear was set up by the government in July last year to try ...

That fall is the result of the closure of the original Magnox-type reactors and the failure to replace them with sufficient new capacity. That failure is widely blamed on the Coalition government ...

The leak of radioactive liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” – a decaying building at the vast Cumbrian site known as the Magnox swarf storage Silo (MSSS ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. COUNCILLORS have been given an update on Sellafield's Magnox Swarf Storage Silo facility in west Cumbria. Members of Cumberland Council's ...

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