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| 18.6.07 Major U-turn on THORP reprocessing policy. No 02/07 20/06/2007 11:02:33 The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the body that owns Sellafield and the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP), announced on 15th June that it is seeking Government approval to make a major change to the way that the products of reprocessing – principally plutonium – are returned to overseas customers |
| 1.3.07 Further delay for THORP - Re-opening now unlikely until mid 2007 at the earliest. No 01/07 01/03/2007 14:16:38 British Nuclear Group (BNG) at Sellafield who operate the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) under contract to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has admitted that there will be yet a further delay to the return to full operation of the plant. |
| 22.11.06 Controversial security and safety planning for latest Sellafield MOX shipment No 3/06 22/11/2006 14:40:29 The 17th November saw the unprecedented use of Cumbria’s main roads for the transport of plutonium fuel (MOX) from Sellafield to Barrow. Arriving at Barrow docks in the early afternoon in a French security vehicle, the heavily escorted MOX transport was routed from Sellafield via the M6 motorway, turning off close to Kendal onto the main A590 road through Ulverston during Friday afternoon’s peak traffic period. |
| 29.6.06 Sellafield’s original sea discharge pipelines removed. No:02/06 29/06/2006 16:17:25 British Nuclear Group (BNG) has announced that the project to remove three redundant discharge pipelines from the Irish Sea has been completed with a total of 5702 metres of pipeline removed. |
| 3.3.06 Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) update. No 01/06 03/03/2006 16:20:44 Like its beleaguered THORP reprocessing plant, closed now for almost one year following a major leak, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA) Sellafield’s MOX plant (SMP) similarly faces an increasingly insecure future. |
| 11.7.05 THORP Leak Update. No 10/05 11/07/2005 21:45:29 Several customers’ fuel involved in the leak and British Nuclear Group plans to re-start THORP using just one Accountancy tank. |
| 13.5.05 THORP Leak Update No 8/05 13/05/2005 17:04:39 The leakage of dissolved nuclear fuel from a pipe in Thorp's Head-End plant was first discovered on 18th April after operators realised that a quantity of sheared and dissolved fuel had not ‘arrived’ at the next stage of the process – the accountancy tanks in the Feed Clarifdication cell. |
| 11.5.05 BNFL Shipping News. No 7/05 11/05/2005 15:57:09 At the local Ramsden Dock (Barrow) Liaison meeting on 28th April, the Committee was told by BNFL that the company was planning to ‘lay-up’ the European Shearwater at Barrow whilst her future is considered. |
| 27.4.05 THORP – leaking pipes shutdown. No 06/05 27/04/2005 14:59:19 BNFL has confirmed that leaking pipes in the Head-End section of the plant, where fuel is sheared and dissolved in nitric acid, is likely to keep THORP out of action ‘for weeks, if not months’. |
| 05.10.00 BNFL Court Conviction. No 17/00 06/10/2000 17:43:55 BNFL was convicted and fined £24,000 (+ costs of £4817.50) after pleading to four charges relating to sealed radiation sources at Sellafield. |