Sellafield Sentence Examples

The latest flare-up over Sellafield involves the transport of two shipments of nuclear fuel from Japan to Britain through the Irish Sea.

Separation leak There was a small leak of radioactive liquor in Sellafield's chemical separation plant last weekend.

More than 50 tons of separated plutonium is still in storage at Sellafield.

Inputs of artificial radionuclides into the Irish Sea are dominated by discharges from Sellafield on the Cumbrian coast.

The Department of Trade and Industry considered either reprocessing the fuel at Sellafield, or leaving the spent fuel in long-term storage without reprocessing.

Closure of the reactors by 2009 would allow Sellafield to reprocess all remaining Magnox fuel before the 2020 " near zero " deadline.

Any nation that wishes to be a nuclear weapons state must have both nuclear reactors and a reprocessing plant such as Sellafield.

The spent fuel will be transported by sea to Sellafield for reprocessing according to the UKAEA proposal.

Shipments of liquid plutonium nitrate by sea from Dounreay to Sellafield will double from next year, site operators AEA Technology has confirmed.