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| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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. |