Spending watchdog launches investigation into Sellafield

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/spending-watchdog-launches-investigation-into-sellafield Sellafield is Europe’s most toxic nuclear site. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Britain’s public spending watchdog has launched an investigation into risks and costs at Sellafield, the UK’s biggest nuclear waste…

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Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cybersecurity failings

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/sellafield-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-charges-over-cybersecurity-failings Sellafield’s lawyers have said that cybersecurity requirements were not ‘sufficiently adhered to for a period’. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian UK nuclear site pleads guilty to IT security breaches from 2019…

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Sellafield nuclear site hacked

A seabird staying warm in one of Sellafield nuclear dump's open-air ponds. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-nuclear-site-hacked-groups-russia-china The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups ... the Guardian…

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Sellafield cleanup cost rises to £136bn amid tensions with Treasury

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/sellafield-cleanup-cost-136bn-national-audit-office Sellafield has ‘retrieved much less waste than it had planned’ since 2020, the NAO said. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian National Audit Office questions value for money as predicted bill for…

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Report damns Sellafield firm over clean-up

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/report-damns-sellafield-firm-over-cleanup-8930953.html Security breaches and delays are rife as nuclear contractor 'puts shareholders before taxpayer' The £70bn project to rid Sellafield, Europe's most hazardous nuclear site, of its waste legacy is…

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Sellafield could leak until 2050s, MPs warn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lne622kk7o The NDA said the "leak in the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo is contained and does not pose a risk to the public" The UK's largest nuclear site could continue…

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Coming soon: filthy nuclear

I intend to bring a series about filthy nuclear soon. It seems that the real issue is and always has been nuclear waste. I am very disappointed by so-called pro-nuclear…

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The Nonsense of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

Dr. Ian Fairlie The Nonsense of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Many readers will have seen the interesting Panorama programme on the poor safety record at Sellafield broadcast on BBC 1 on…

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