Sellafield is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England.As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.Former activities included nuclear power generation from 1956 to 2003, and nuclear fuel reprocessing from 1952 to 2022. Reprocessing ceased on 17 July 2022, when …

Sellafield Ltd is a nuclear decommissioning Site Licence Company (SLC) controlled by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), a government body set up specifically to deal with the nuclear legacy under the Energy Act 2004. From 2008–2016, it was operated under licence from the NDA by a third party Parent Body Organisation called Nuclear ...

The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, and one of the worst in the world, ranked in severity at level 5 out of a possible 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The fire was in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale site on the north-west coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria).

Sellafield (früher Windscale) ist ein britischer Nuklearkomplex an der Irischen See in der Grafschaft Cumbria in Nordwestengland.Der River Ehen mündet am Rande der Anlage ins Meer und der River Calder fließt durch das Gebiet der Anlage, bevor er dort ebenfalls ins Meer mündet. Die Anlage liegt beim Dorf Seascale im Distrikt Copeland.Der Komplex wurde durch einen …

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, formed by the Energy Act 2004.It evolved from the Coal and Nuclear Liabilities Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry.It came into existence during late 2004, and took on its main functions on 1 April 2005.

Windscale bzw. Sellafield, Vereinigtes Königreich: In der Wiederaufarbeitungsanlage kam es in einem für Reparaturen entleerten Becken beim Wiederauffüllen mit Wasser aufgrund heißer Radionuklide am Beckenboden zu einer exothermen Reaktion. Hierdurch wurden ein Teil der Anlage sowie 35 Arbeiter radioaktiv kontaminiert.

The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor in Pennsylvania, United States.It began at 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale, it is rated Level 5 – Accident with Wider Consequences.

History. Carnforth railway station was opened on 22 September 1846 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (L&CR). It had a single platform and was a second-class station. It became a junction on 6 June 1857, when the Ulverstone and Lancaster Railway arrived from the north-west. The station served as the line's southern terminus.

Der für Anfang April 2020 geplante erste der drei Castor-Rücktransporte von Sellafield zum Zwischenlager Biblis wurde aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie in Deutschland zunächst abgesagt, um Infektionen unter den 6000 zum Schutz des Transports notwendigen Polizisten zu vermeiden, und schließlich Anfang November 2020 durchgeführt.. Transporte nach Frankreich

History. Built in total secrecy between 1945 and 1948, the Mayak plant was the first reactor used to create plutonium for the Soviet atomic bomb project.In accordance with Stalinist procedure and supervised by NKVD Chief Lavrenti Beria, it was the utmost priority to produce enough weapons-grade material to match the U.S. nuclear superiority following the atomic bombings of …