The first 100 tonnes of contaminated equipment that has laid for decades in the Pile Fuel Storage Pond at the Sellafield site in the UK has been retrieved for final disposal. The first 100 tonnes of ...

The world’s largest open air nuclear storage pond will be decommissioned, in an effort to make the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, U.K. safer, the BBC reported. Built in 1948, the Pile Fuel ...

Operations have started to remove nuclear fuel from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond (PFSP) at the Sellafield site in the UK. The move marks the first time that fuel has been retrieved from the pond since ...

CHORLEY, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company has been selected by Sellafield Ltd to conduct decommissioning activities under two separate Decommissioning Framework ...

Sellafield has been called the most dangerous place in the UK, the most hazardous place in Europe and the world’s riskiest nuclear waste site. At its heart is a giant pond full of radioactive sludge, ...

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Many, many researchers are working on robots they hope can help clean up after nuclear meltdowns. The robots are supposed to go where people can't and send back information to their human handlers.

CHANTILLY, Va., October 31, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amentum (NYSE: AMTM) has secured positions on a new multi-billion pound framework to deliver expert decommissioning solutions for the Sellafield ...

Advanced engineering group Amentum is among the firms to have secured positions on a new multibillion-pound framework to deliver expert decommissioning services for the Sellafield nuclear site. Under ...

A 44-YEAR-OLD cooling pond at the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria is leaking radioactivity. But the problems that led to the leak are being kept secret because British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) ...

CHORLEY, United Kingdom--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westinghouse Electric Company has been selected by Sellafield Ltd to conduct decommissioning activities under two separate Decommissioning Framework ...

Under the 15-year Decommissioning and Nuclear Waste Partnership (DNWP), Amentum will carry out remediation work on disused facilities and retrieve hazardous waste from legacy ponds on the site in ...