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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 arm being operated inside a glovebox at Sellafield Ltd
A key challenge at Sellafield is how to…
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 Authority (NDA) has published its revised strategy for public consultation, setting out a clear roadmap…
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group announces pioneering partnership to deploy innovative technology to manage radioactive waste.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) group has today announced a pioneering partnership which will see innovative technology deployed for the…
Energy Minister Michael Shanks asks the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to explore clean energy at Moorside.
The government’s nuclear decommissioning arm, which owns the site adjacent to Sellafield, will work with the local council to explore using the land for clean energy projects –…
Members of the team who completed the final concrete pour at Sellafield's SRP project
The Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant (SRP) is one of our largest and most complex construction projects.
When finished it will play an essential role in managing the UK’s…
One of the most challenging puzzles in the UK’s nuclear clean-up programme is being solved.
Waste is now being routinely retrieved from one of the world’s oldest nuclear waste stores for the first time in its history.
Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Cladding Silo has effectively been a locked…
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority hosted NDA/Non-Governmental Organisation Forum on sites for the first time.
Keeping open and transparent dialogue going with a wide range of external stakeholders is a key commitment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) strategy – and last week…
A redundant Sellafield train has returned to the firm that rebuilt it 28 years ago.
Sellafield’s hardworking locomotives star in the latest series of Great British Railway Journeys on BBC2, giving viewers a rare glimpse at one of the largest internal rail networks in the country.
Our…
Laura Hogg, 7 March 2025 - Mission delivery, Science, Waste management
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…
Sellafield Ltd invites Year 10 learners with an interest in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to participate in the ‘Evolve’ work experience programme.
So far, more than 100 students have been involved in Evolve, with participants currently coming from 11 different schools in West…
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority group have announced five organisations as winners of this year’s supply chain awards.
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, The Decommissioning Delivery Partnership, PA Consulting, Antech and The Higher Activity Waste Thermal Treatment Tranche 1 Team are the…
1 - You don’t have to be from West Cumbria to work at Sellafield
I’m originally from Wick in the far north of Scotland and in 2017, I moved to Glasgow to study for my Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. If you join through the…
For head of asset management at Sellafield Ltd, Gary Dixon, harnessing the latest technology and applying them on an industrial engineering level is something that he gets to do every day.
Here he explains what the top 3 trends shaping the future of engineering are and how his engineering…
Clean up of the Sellafield site has taken another step forward with a new storage facility completing a vital milestone ahead of schedule.
This month the £1.5 billion Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) handed over its waste treatment cell to commissioning, completing its biggest milestone to…
A critical project to upgrade Sellafield’s electrical power network has hit an important milestone.
The Electrical Distribution Network Upgrade Project, known as EDNUP, is working to refurbish the Sellafield site’s electricity system.
Teams working on the project installed 33…
Sellafield’s newly-opened Direct Import Facility receives first box of historical nuclear waste, paving the way for clean-up of one of the site’s oldest buildings.
One of the biggest challenges at Sellafield is the need to remove historical nuclear waste from its legacy ponds and silos and…
NDA hosts Cumbria’s first ever cyber security “Capture the Flag” competition for secondary schools.
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) hosted Cumbria’s first ever cyber security “Capture the Flag” competition last week for secondary schools to encourage pupils to consider a career…
Newly-established development firm Solway Community Power Company has selected the Rolls-Royce small modular reactor (SMR) for deployment in West Cumbria, England. Earlier this week, it was announced that four sites in the UK, including land near the Sellafield site in Cumbria, have been…
Sky News was given exclusive access to the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, including to the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, which has been described as the most hazardous building in Western Europe.
The site is focussed on cleaning up 70 years of our nuclear waste legacy.
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