Nuclear Waste Updates

US nuclear waste disposal company Deep Isolation says that a two-year research project that subjected its Universal Canister System to the kinds of conditions found thousands of feet below the…

Hinkley Point B has been declared fuel free, on time and on budget, marking the second AGR defuelling milestone achieved by the NDA group and EDF.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)…

Sellafield Ltd joins forces with local partners and supply chain to fund the creation of LEVELS – a state-of-the-art digital centre in Whitehaven, West Cumbria.

Sellafield Ltd, through its…

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning has invited the municipalities to express an interest in taking part in the process of finding a suitable location for storage facilities for radioactive waste.…

Guest: David Porter, 161st President of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

In this podcast we explore the power of investment in infrastructure to change and…

Guest: Ruth Todd CBE, Operations and Supply Chain Director, Rolls-Royce SMR
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

We kick off the Infrastructure Podcast for 2026 by talking about nuclear power…

Sellafield Ltd employee Gary McKee has been awarded an MBE in the King’s 2026 New Year Honours List.

Sellafield Ltd is delighted to congratulate one of our employees, Gary McKee on being…

Sellafield teams have successfully removed 70 tonnes of radioactive waste from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo – one of the Sellafield’s site’s most hazardous legacy facilities – marking a…

A collaboration of Cumbrian-based suppliers has been awarded a four-year contract, valued at up to £10 million, to manufacture waste containers for Sellafield Ltd.

A Cumbrian collaboration…

Sellafield Ltd awards framework with a total value of £4.6 billion to support high hazard risk reduction.

Sellafield Ltd has awarded a framework with a maximum value of £4.6 billion to…

Ukraine’s nuclear regulator has approved the release of the first 20 tonnes of carbon steel from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant for reuse elsewhere in the country.

Before being cleared…

Eletronuclear has begun a four month campaign of transferring used fuel from Angra nuclear power plant’s unit 1 to the Complementary Dry Storage Unit - a process which will increase by 20 years…

Companies will continue working together to support progress in the UK and Japan

The organisations tasked with the two most challenging nuclear clean-up jobs in the world have agreed to…

GRAHAM has been appointed by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) to deliver its critical infrastructure framework at the Low-Level Waste Repository in Cumbria.

The £49.6 million Integrated Site…

More than 25,000 tonnes of material have been used to safely backfill the basement structure of a demolished turbine hall by NRS at Dungeness A site, Kent.

Originally constructed in 1965,…

Guest:  Paul Turner, chief executive, Institute of Commissioning & Assurance.
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

In this episode we revisit the subject of project commissioning - a…

Guest: Mike Pigott, Director of Waste Operations and Sites at Nuclear Waste Services
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

In this episode we’re focusing on the management of nuclear waste; one…

A team of robotics specialists have achieved a world first by fitting and operating a robotic arm inside an active nuclear glovebox at Sellafield.

A world first demonstration of a robotic…

Almost £20 million funding was invested to help NRS communities grow and thrive in 2024/25. NRS has supported 149 projects to bring positive social change to benefit people living in communities…

The NDA has published its strategy for consultation, setting out the roadmap to decommission the UK’s earliest nuclear sites safely, securely and sustainably.

The Nuclear Decommissioning…