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| 23.10.09 Wearing thin - Sellafield’s High Level Waste (HLW) Evaporators in trouble again. No 06/09 23/10/2009 23:02:36 |
| 09.10.09 As new High Level Waste (HLW) storage tanks are planned, industry regulators issue warning on other high hazard facilities at Sellafield.No 05/09 09/10/2009 22:10:19 |
| 17.06.09 Raised Gas Discharges of Antimony-125 from Sellafield’s Fuel Handling Plant force temporary closure of Magnox reprocessing. No 04/09 17/06/2009 12:17:58 |
| 10.06.09 Sellafield MOX fuel, rejected by Japan, to be sent to France.No 03/09 10/06/2009 14:34:14 |
| 08.05.09 Sellafield – A Lost Cause.No 02/09 11/05/2009 09:36:06 |
| 18.02.09 Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP). Stuck on the road to nowhere. No01/09 18/02/2009 17:08:11 |
| 28.5.08 4-Month Suspension of UK Spent Fuel Transports on Quality Assurance Issues, and the UK’s First Plutonium Shipment to Europe. No 03/08 28/05/2008 17:56:51 Following the April 2008 edition of the Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) Nuclear Newsletter which referred to ‘quality assurance issues relating to irradiated fuel transport flasks’, a Freedom of Information request was made by CORE to HSE asking for full details. |
| 23.4.08 Update. Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) and THORP Reprocessing No 02/08 24/04/2008 18:05:44 Hard on the heels of Government confirmation that SMP had managed to produce just 5.2 tonnes of MOX fuel in five years of operation comes the admission from operators Sellafield Limited that ‘overall production has fallen behind’ as a result of a continuing production failures. |
| 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 |
| 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. |