The first 100 tonnes of contaminated equipment that has laid for decades in the Pile Fuel Storage Pond at the Sellafield site in the UK has been retrieved for final disposal. The first 100 tonnes of ...

The world’s largest open air nuclear storage pond will be decommissioned, in an effort to make the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, U.K. safer, the BBC reported. Built in 1948, the Pile Fuel ...

Operations have started to remove nuclear fuel from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) at the Sellafield site in the UK. The move marks the first time that fuel has been retrieved from the pond since ...

Work has begun to remove sludge from an old storage pond at one of the most hazardous nuclear plants in Europe, Sellafield in Cumbria. Around 1,500 cubic metres of radioactive material is being ...

Divers have been carrying out vital clean-up and decommissioning work in the oldest legacy storage pond on the Sellafield site. The last time a human entered Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Storage Pond was in ...

One of the UK’s most important nuclear decommissioning projects has taken a giant leap forward. Workers at Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Storage Pond have now removed half of the solid waste in the facility.

Sellafield has been called the most dangerous place in the UK, the most hazardous place in Europe and the world’s riskiest nuclear waste site. At its heart is a giant pond full of radioactive sludge, ...

The 330ft (100m)-long outdoor pool at Sellafield in Cumbria was built in the 1940s for use by Windscale Piles, the site's first nuclear reactors. It went out of use in the 1960s and is now being ...