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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’. |
| 14.03.05 Missed MOX target and financial woes for BNFL and the NDA.No 05/05 14/03/2005 17:55:38 Taking over at Sellafield on the 1st April this year, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will not be encouraged by the failure yet again of the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) to meet a production target |
| 8.3.05 Sellafield pipeline removed No 04/05 08/03/2005 15:32:19 Laid down fifty five years ago, the last of two beach sections of Sellafield’s original discharge pipelines was removed yesterday |
| 28.2.05 New Labour man for Sellafield constituency. No 03/05 28/02/2005 17:05:01 From a list of around thirty applicants, members of the local Labour Party have selected their new candidate to fight to retain the Copeland constituency for Labour at the forthcoming General Election. |
| 27.1.05 BNFL to order new nuclear cargo ship(s) No 02/05 27/01/2005 14:07:12 As BNFL’s oldest nuclear cargo ship Pacific Swan left her home port of Barrow-in-Furness yesterday bound for a breakers yard at Rotterdam, details were emerging about the company’s plans to order a new ship – with the option of having a second ship built at the same time. |
| 4.1.05 Italy planning to export nuclear waste problems to UK No 1/05 04/01/2005 15:21:21 The nuclear industry publication ‘Nuclear Fuel’ confirms the long-suspected plan by Italy to export 235 tonnes of spent fuel to the UK for reprocessing. |
| 6.12.04 Radioactive scrap returned to Sellafield.No 07/04 06/12/2004 16:23:36 A consignment of radioactive scrap metal heading from Sellafield to a scrap metal dealer in Barrow-in-Furness had to be recalled to the site when officials at Sellafield suspected that the material might have been contaminated. |
| 13.10.04 Deathknell for radioactive seafood from Cumbria, the Solway and Morecambe Bay? No 06/04 14/10/2004 10:33:32 New law could ban seafood too contaminated with Sellafield plutonium. An article by Rob Edwards in the New Scientist (12.10.04) points to thousands of tonnes of shellfish from NW England and SW Scotland being likely to exceed newly proposed international safety limits for radioactivity in food. The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned such foods could be banned. |
| 27.9.04 All change at the Sellafield Visitor Centre No 05/04 28/09/2004 10:26:27 Changes to the Sellafield Visitor Centre are expected shortly when control of the Centre’s exhibits returns temporarily to British Nuclear Fuels |
| 3.6.04 Nuclear materials ship goes to Dutch breakers yard for recycling. No 04/04 03/06/2004 21:28:59 British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) has announced that the ship Pacific Crane (4800 tons) is to be towed from the Barrow-in-Furness Docks today Thursday 3rd June on an estimated five-day journey to a breakers yard at Rotterdam. |
| 13.4.04 All change at the top ? No 03/04 13/04/2004 15:49:15 BNFL has today refused to confirm weekend speculation in the Financial Mail that Gordon Campbell, chairman of defence services group Babcock International, will be appointed new chairman of BNFL this week |
| 22.03.04 Blast Proof Wall for Sellafield’s Plutonium Stores.No 02/04 22/03/2004 17:49:04 West Cumbrian local authority Copeland Borough Council has recently approved BNFL plans to build a concrete protective barrier around the two Sellafield plutonium stores. |
| 04.02.04 Second Nuclear Ship Laid Off.No 01/04 04/02/2004 14:09:06 BNFL confirmed yesterday (2nd February) that they are to lay off the ship Pacific Swan. Whilst no press statement has been issued by the company, a BNFL press spokesperson said today that ‘the ship had completed all its scheduled work’. |
| 30.12.03 Sellafield Pipeline – Update and Prosecution.No 12/03 30/12/2003 12:07:59 Lengths of Sellafield’s plastic discharge pipe which escaped their sea-bed containment cage in late November are still being washed up around the northern Irish Sea. |
| 12.12.03 Off-site Technetium 99 contamination getting worse.No 11/03 15/12/2003 15:16:36 A meeting of the Sellafield Local Liaison Committee (SLLC) on 4th December was told of the Environment Agency’s concerns about the increasing spread of Technetium 99 (Tc-99) in groundwater outside the Sellafield site. |
| 11.12.03 Plutonium in Childrens’ Teeth.No 10/03 11/12/2003 11:31:28 The re-emergence of evidence that Sellafield’s plutonium is found in children’s teeth has brought the expected response from British Nuclear Fuels and Sellafield’s pro-nuclear Member of Parliament Dr Jack Cunningham. Both have ventured that the plutonium might have come from nuclear weapons fallout rather than from Sellafield’s reprocessing operations. |
| 26.7.03 Sections of Sellafield Pipeline Adrift in Irish Sea. No 09/03 27/11/2003 11:00:05 Sections of a Sellafield pipeline being removed from the seabed have broken clear of their retaining cages. More than 20 sections of the plastic pipeline, cut into 2.5 metre lengths, have been washed up on local beaches. |
| 27.10.03 Emphatic vote for strike action at Sellafield.No 08/03 27/10/2003 18:29:48 Following a long-running battle with British Nuclear Fuels to bring shift pay rates for industrial workers in line with staff side rates, Sellafield’s GMB and Amicus unions have voted this afternoon to take strike action. |
| 15.8.03 Removal of Sellafield Discharge Pipelines. No 07/03 15/08/2003 16:35:52 Sellafield’s original and infamous Irish Sea discharge pipelines are to be removed under plans recently announced by BNFL. |
| 14.8.03 Sellafield plutonium shipments in the offing.No 06/03 14/08/2003 16:44:42 The prospect of plutonium transports between UK and Europe has recently been fuelled by a BNFL statement to the industry’s journal Nuclear Fuel (NF). |
| 24.03.03 Sellafield’s Slap-Happy Security.No 03/03 16/06/2003 16:12:04 Despite the prospect of its ‘Black Special’ security status being raised to ‘Amber’ because of the war in Iraq, protection of the Sellafield site was shown to be as lax as ever last weekend. In broad daylight, two members of the public were twice (within 30 minutes) able to place ladders against the perimeter security fence close to the plutonium stores. On the second occasion they erected a banner on top of the fence without attracting the slightest interest from guards within or around the site. |
| 16.6.03 Plans to export Sellafield nuclear waste to Fawley, Southampton for incineration.No 05/03 16/06/2003 16:01:10 In a written presentation to the Sellafield Local Liaison Committee (SLLC) on 5th June, the Environment Agency (EA) revealed plans for both liquid and solid Low Level Radioactive Wastes (LLW) to be shipped from Sellafield for incineration by Shanks Chemical Services at Fawley. |
| 3.6.03 Lax Security on High Level Waste Ship. No 04/03 03/06/2003 17:10:41 Shipping agents for BNFL’s fleet of radioactive material carriers are carrying out an investigation at Barrow Docks to determine how sensitive documents relating to one of the ships in their care were found blowing around the dockside yesterday. |
| 4.2.03 Surprise resignation of BNFL’s Chief Executive. No 02/03 04/02/2003 14:09:31 BNFL’s announcement yesterday that the company’s chief executive Norman Askew is to leave the company in the summer at his own request has taken the nuclear industry by surprise. 60 year old Askew will stay in position until summer 2003, giving BNFL time to recruit a new chief executive. |
| 16.1.03 Sellafield Fatality. No 01/03 17/01/2003 10:31:16 The Sellafield community is mourning the death of a contract worker who fell to his death inside No 1 Windscale Pile reactor chimney on 9th January. |
| 13.12.02 Incident at Sellafield MOX Plant. No 13/02 13/12/2002 15:35:19 BNFL has reported that work in the new Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP), currently under commissioning, was forced to a halt last week. |
| 21.10.02 BNFL Shipping News. No 12/02 21/10/2002 10:39:54 British Nuclear Fuels yesterday announced the retirement from service of the nuclear cargo vessel Pacific Crane with the loss of 30 jobs. |
| 9.8.02 Calder Hall Closure & ‘Golf Ball’ Decommissioning. No 11/02 09/08/2002 16:28:31 Announcing in June this year that the Calder Hall Power Station at Sellafield was to be closed prematurely, BNFL cited that whilst the four 50MW Magnox reactors were safe, a significant fall in electricity prices had made them uneconomic. |
| 27.6.02 Magnox Reprocessing Failures Threaten More UK Power Stations. No 10/02 27/06/2002 15:08:50 With lower than projected annual throughput rates in Sellafield’s B 205 Magnox Reprocessing Plant, BNFL’s closure date for B 205 looks increasingly unachievable – threatening the life expectancy of more UK Magnox power stations |
| 07.06.02 Sellafield Reactors and Reprocessing Still In Trouble. No 09/02 07/06/2002 16:30:53 A meeting of the Sellafield Local Liaison Committee (SLLC) was told yesterday, 6th June 2002, that whilst Calder Hall’s No 1 Reactor was expected back on line within the next few weeks, Reactors 2, 3 & 4 were unlikely to return to operation until at least the ‘back-end of the year’. |
| 9.5.02 THORP to fall further behind schedule.No 08/02 15/05/2002 18:04:22 Already behind schedule, BNFL’s Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant THORP is set to fall even further behind as a result of a number of planned engineering outages during the current financial year 2002/3. |
| 12.4.02 Technetium 99 leaking from Sellafield site. No 07/02 12/04/2002 17:18:37 The Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) Nuclear Safety Directorate has reported that levels of Technetium 99 (Tc-99) have now been discovered in groundwater boreholes outside as well as inside the Sellafield site. |
| 03.4.02 New Fire Engines for Sellafield but cut in anti-terrorism money. No 06/02 03/04/2002 10:12:36 Last week’s announcement that BNFL was spending £600,000 on new firefighting vehicles capable of dealing with September 11th style conflagrations was somewhat dampened by the subsequent news that the Government has slashed its emergency planning grant to Cumbria County Council by 10% - from £239,000 to £215,730. |
| 28.3.02 Fire on BNFL Ship.No 05/02 28/03/2002 09:43:40 The Atlantic Osprey, latest addition to British Nuclear Fuels’ nuclear cargo carrying fleet, was forced to return to dry dock yesterday following an engine room fire on Monday 25th March. |
| 6.3.02 Another Conviction for BNFL. No 04/02 06/03/2002 19:01:46 Magistrates at Whitehaven Court in Cumbria today fined BNFL a total of £15,000 for three offences commited last year at Sellafield which resulted in a contract worker receiving a high radiation dose. The case was brought by the Health & Safety Executive’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII). |
| 14.2.02 Calder Hall Accident and THORP Waste Problems. No 02/02 14/02/2002 15:04:30 The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) are investigating an accident that occurred last Friday, 8th February, in one of Sellafield’s four Calder Hall magnox reactors. |
| 16.1.02 BNFL’s Accounts and Accounting Practices Exposed. No 1/02 16/01/2002 16:38:56 A decade of comprehensive research into British Nuclear Fuels annual accounts highlights long-standing doubts about their probity and the validity of the company’s accounting practices which, since the early 1980’s, have masked the company’s downward spiral to insolvency. |
| 13.12.01 Calder Hall Power Station Closed. No 19/01 13/12/2001 11:58:52 BNFL’s Director of Operations at Sellafield warned the Local Liaison Committee at its 6th December meeting that ‘unresolved problems’ with the Calder Hall power station could see the closure of the station’s four magnox reactors by the end of the year. |
| 30.10.01 Irish Challenge to Sellafield MOX Plant. No 18/01 30/10/2001 15:58:56 The Irish Government formally served legal documents on the UK Government on 25th October with the claim that, in the steps leading to the authorisation of the Sellafield Mox Plant (SMP), the UK has violated numerous provisions of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) |
| 22.8.01 BNFL Health & Safety Targets and Performance. No 17/01 22/08/2001 16:25:13 In a rare display of frankness, BNFL’s recently published Annual Report on Environment, Health & Safety 2000-2001 discloses details of the company’s annual performance. |
| 6.8.01 BNFL adds to shipping fleet. No 16/01 06/08/2001 11:46:39 Lloyds List reports (20th July) that BNFL has added to its fleet of nuclear ships by buying, for an undisclosed sum, a second-hand roll-on/roll-off cargo ship from Adler & Sohne, a family owned German shipping company. |
| 16.7.01 Chapelcross Update. No 15/01 16/07/2001 15:28:30 Chapelcross is still struggling to retrieve the 24 fuel rods which fell in their container onto the closed door of the defuelling shaft, BNFL has confirmed that they still face major difficulties. |
| 1.5.01 Protest Action Against German Waste Shipment. No 12/01 10/07/2001 11:12:19 The first shipment of German waste to be sent to Sellafield for over three years arrived at Barrow Docks on Sunday, 29th April. |
| 9.7.01 Fuel handling problems at Chapelcross and Sellafield.No 14/01 10/07/2001 11:05:35 BNFL has confirmed reports in a Scottish Sunday newspaper that 24 fuel rods were dropped whilst being removed from No 3 Reactor at Chapelcross on Thursday 5th July. |
| 4.7.01 BNFL Deceives Customers over THORP. No 13/01 04/07/2001 15:08:23 A report by CORE published on 24th June reveals that the date of March 2005 set by BNFL for completion of overseas customers reprocessing contracts with THORP will not be achieved and that customers have been deceived. The report has been sent to all overseas customers and UK Government Ministers. |
| 6.4.01 BNFL Convicted Again. No 11/01 06/04/2001 15:10:32 Pleading guitly to three offences under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993, sections 6-8 and 9-11, (each carrying a maximum penalty of £20,000) BNFL plc and BNFL Instruments were convicted and fined a total of £12,000 by Magistrates at Whitehaven on Thursday 5th April. The court ordered that costs of £10,010 must also be paid. BNFL legal team’s request to be allowed one week to pay was granted by the court. |
| 3.4.01 THORP completes seventh year of operation.No 10/00 04/04/2001 18:30:10 On 31st March 2001 BNFL’s Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) completed the seventh (financial) year of its ten-year Baseload period. As in previous years, the plant has been dogged by technical problems within the plant and in associated ‘downstream’ plant. |
| 15.3.01 Forgotten Discharges from MDF.No 09/01 15/03/2001 11:00:03 An advertisement by the Environment Agency (EA) has been placed in local Cumbrian newspapers giving notice of an application by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) to discharge cooling water and steam condensate from the MOX Demonstration Facility into the local River Ehen at Sellafield. |
| 12.3.01 1] Reprocessing Workers Contaminated. 2] Blockage in Clean-Up Plant. No 08/01 13/03/2001 10:15:51 The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) is to investigate an accident at Sellafield’s B205 Magnox reprocessing plant last week when two BNFL process workers were contaminated with plutonium. |
| 20.2.01 BNFL Drops Hex. No 07/01 20/02/2001 11:55:27 BNFL has announced that the company is to cease marketing uranium hexafluoride (UF6) at its Springfields plant in Lancashire. |
| 12.2.01 Alarms in High Level Waste tanks ignored by workers for almost 3 hours. No 06/01 12/02/2001 10:06:45 British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) has admitted that workers monitoring the safety of the High Level Waste (HLW) tanks in Building 215 at Sellafield on 26th January 2001 failed to act on alarms warning that the tanks’ ventilation system was malfunctioning. |
| 2.2.01 High Level Liquid Waste Enforcement No 05/01 02/02/2001 14:41:40 In a News Release on 31st January 2001, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) has outlined its plans requiring British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) to reduce stocks of Highly Active Liquours (HAL) to one-eighth of current levels. |
| 25.1.01 BNFL Abandons New Magrox Fuel No 04/01 25/01/2001 17:54:42 BNFL has announced today that it is to abandon the development and use of a new type of fuel intended for two of its Magnox power stations. |
| 22.1.01 BNFL’s Internal Conspiracy against Japanese Reprocessing Plant. No 03/01 22/01/2001 16:56:22 The Guardian newspaper has today reported on BNFL internal documents, obtained by CORE, which conspire to prevent their counterparts at the Japanese Rokkasho Mura reprocessing plant from fitting Krypton gas retention technology. |
| 12.1.01 Depleted Uranium Shells. No 02/01 16/01/2001 16:29:58 BNFL’s Contribution. |
| 04.1.01 Fire at Vitrification Plant. No 01/01 04/01/2001 16:59:26 On 24th December a fire in Sellafield’s Vitrification plant led to the evacuation of all workers. |
| 06.12.00 THORP Reprocessing Update No 20/00 06/12/2000 16:49:47 Further slippage in schedule leads to ‘discussions’ between BNFL and Customers. |
| 13.10.00 Nuclear Industry Family Study – part 2 – No 19/00 13/10/2000 16:46:39 Results of the second part of the British ‘Nuclear Industry Family study’ have been published in the Lancet on 13th October. |
| 05.10.00 THORP Closure. No 18/00 06/10/2000 17:49:57 BNFL has today admitted that it has had to bring forward, from November, a planned maintenance stoppage at the THORP reprocessing plant in order to deal with an as yet unidentified problem with an evaporator. |
| 13.9.00 BNFL served with Enforcement Notice by Environment Agency. No 16/00 15/09/2000 16:13:59 Enforcement Notice relating to radioactive gas discharges was served earlier this week on the Company. |
| 10.8.00 Transport Enforcement Order + Sealed Source Prosecution. No 15/00 10/08/2000 15:22:28 BNFL has been issued with an Enforcement Order by the Health and Safety Inspectorate (Railways). |
| 13.7.00 Deal struck on falsified MOX fuel – at taxpayers expense. No 14/00 19/07/2000 15:47:53 After months of behind-the-scenes wrangling between the UK and Japanese Governments and BNFL and their Kansai Electric customer, agreement was reached this week on the fate of the MOX fuel shipped last year to Japan with falsified quality assurance data. |
| 10.7.00 Dutch court dashes BNFL hopes of the resumption of fuel transports to Sellafield No 13/00 10/07/2000 14:39:10 In a long running court case in the Netherlands, the Dutch Council of State again ruled last week that transports of spent nuclear fuel from the Dodewaard reactor to Sellafield could not re-start. |
| 06.4.00 BNFL guilty of acid burn accident and will face unlimited fine at Carlisle Crown Court. No 09/00 19/06/2000 18:26:01 Magistrates at Whitehaven court today accepted BNFL’s plea of guilty of a breach of Health and Safety Regulations and by failing to ensure the safety of their employees, which resulted in three Sellafield workers being injured. |
| 19.6.00 Windscale Pile Problems. No12/00 19/06/2000 18:03:38 Decommissioning work on Windscale Pile No 1, subject of the 1957 fire, has been halted for a re-appraisal to be made as to how best remove around 15 tonnes of fire damaged fuel from the pile. |
| 11.5.00 Major setbacks for BNFL in the United States. No 11/00 11/05/2000 15:12:41 Fresh troubles have been heaped on BNFL with the loss of a lucrative clean-up contract in America. |
| 19.4.00 BNFL response to NII criticisms. No 10/00 20/04/2000 15:30:08 BNFL yesterday published details of the ‘sweeping changes’ the company was making in order to meet the extensive criticisms of falsification and safety at Sellafield |
| 08.3.00 Sabotage at Sellafield Vitrification Plant. No 06/00 31/03/2000 18:08:47 BNFL has confirmed that damage has been inflicted by saboteurs on equipment at the Vitrification Plant (B355). |
| 28.3.00 Sellafield Unions Campaign. No 08/00 31/03/2000 17:56:02 Sellafield Trades Unions have outlined their strategy to deal with the current crisis at the plant. |
| 24.3.00 Swiss shun Sellafield. No 07/00 31/03/2000 17:53:04 The Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (HSK) yesterday banned any further export of spent nuclear fuel from Swiss nuclear power stations to Sellafield for reprocessing |
| 6.3.00 More Suspect BNFL Fuel. No 05/00 06/03/2000 14:28:58 BNFL now faces a further embarrassment over oxide fuel fabrication at its Springfields plant in Lancashire. |
| 1.3.00 New Chief Executive for BNFL. No 04/00 01/03/2000 18:41:55 In a News Release issued mid-afternoon today from Sellafield, BNFL has announced that Norman Askew will take over the company’s Chief Executive’s role as from 13th March 2000. |
| 28.2.00 BNFL Chief Executive Resigns No 02/00 28/02/2000 14:48:32 In the wake of the MOX fuel falsification scandal and other damning reports last week on safety at Sellafield, the Company’s Chief Executive John Taylor is reported to have resigned. |
| 22.2.00 Sellafield Update - MOX, Safety, HLW & Prosecution. No 01/00 28/02/2000 14:29:31 Friday 18th February 2000 must be recorded as the blackest day in BNFL’s 30 year chequered history, with the publication of three damning reports by the Health & Safety Executive’s Nuclear Installations Inspectorate. |
| 1.3.00 Swedish Withdrawal Symptoms No 03/00 18/02/2000 17:09:05 Plans to ship a small consignment of research reactor fuel from Sweden to Sellafield for reprocessing have been scrapped. |
| 7.4.00 BNFL in court. No 09/00 16/02/2000 14:20:19 BNFL guilty of acid burn accident and will face unlimited fine at Carlisle Crown Court. |
| 12.1.99. Pipe-blockage shuts down THORP again. No 01/99 02/02/2000 15:15:37 British Nuclear Fuels has announced the halting of THORP reprocessing following the blockage of a pipe in the Head End plant. |
| 5.2.99 THORP shut-down – 8 month closure possible. No 02/99 02/02/2000 15:10:36 The THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield is again closed-down. |
| 19.5.99.THORP. No 08/99 02/02/2000 14:37:56 The THORP reprocessing plant is claimed by BNFL to be ‘back in business’ after a four month shut-down following a pipe blockage. |
| 21.5.99. Plutonium ships. No 09/99 02/02/2000 14:35:17 The United States Government has accepted plans to ship weapons-useable plutonium fuel from UK and France to Japan without the use of a military escort ship. |
| 21.5.99. New Radiation Study. No 10/99 02/02/2000 14:30:46 Results of a new British study were published on the 28th May in the British Medical Journal. |
| 12.6.99. Sellafield MOX Plant Decision. No 11/99 02/02/2000 14:27:29 Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott yesterday announced the Government’s twice-postponed and long-awaited decision on the new Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP). |
| 21.7.99. BNFL MOX Shipment to Japan. No 12/99 02/02/2000 14:20:57 Two BNFL ships, fitted with naval canon and carrying armed security crews, left the port of Barrow-in-Furness on the afternoon of Monday 19th July. |
| 26.7.99. Sellafield’s Waste Vitrification Plant Performance Worsens. No 13/99 02/02/2000 14:18:25 BNFL’s vitrification programme of converting Highly Active liquid wastes to glass form has suffered a further setback following a pipeline blockage. |
| 28.7.99. 1. Sellafield Safety Inspection 2. THORP. No 14/99 02/02/2000 14:15:18 1. The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) has announced that it is to carry out a team inspection of all operations at the Sellafield site. |
| 28.7.99.Government announce new BNFL Chairman.No 15/99 02/02/2000 13:57:09 UK’s Energy Minister John Battle, has announced the successor to BNFL’s current Chairman John Guinness. |
| 3.8.99.NIREX Borehole Application Rejected.No 16/99 02/02/2000 13:53:46 Cumbria County Council’s Development, Control & Regulation Committee voted to reject an application by UK NIREX Ltd to extend the life of 13 deep geological boreholes |
| 16.8.99. Population Mixing cancer theory again pushed forward to account for Sellafield Leukaemias. No 17/99 02/02/2000 13:50:55 Research work by Newcastle University is today published in the British Journal of Cancer |
| 14.9.99. BNFL Fiddling MOX Quality Control Data. No 18/99 02/02/2000 13:46:06 BNFL has admitted by-passing a vital system of physical quality control of MOX fuel pellets during their manufacture. |
| 4.10.99. Sellafield plutonium fuel reaches Japan. No 19/99 02/02/2000 13:41:12 After 75 days at sea, BNFL’s controversial consignment of Sellafield MOX fuel has reached its destination in Japan. |
| 26.10.99. Sellafield Link with stillbirths. No 20/99 02/02/2000 13:35:27 A study on stillbirths among offspring of male radiation workers at Sellafield was published in The Lancet on Friday 22nd October 1999 |
| 22.12.99 Sellafield’s Calder Hall reactors. No 21/99 31/01/2000 12:00:33 Extended shut-down following non availability of qualified technicians. |
| 20.2.01. BNFL Drops Hex. No 07/01 31/01/2000 11:43:31 BNFL has announced that the company is to cease marketing uranium hexafluoride (UF6) at its Springfields plant in Lancashire. |
| 4/10/99. Site goes live 04/10/1999 14:24:22 Site launched 4th October 1999 |