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Sellafield Limited

Key information at a glance

Location:
Sellafield Limited, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG
Licencee:
Sellafield Limited
Owner:
N/A
Parent body organisation:
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Type of site:
Decommissioning and nuclear waste management activities
Safety Attention Level:
Significantly enhanced/Enhanced
Security Attention Level:
Significantly enhanced/Enhanced
Website:
GOV.uk website
Sellafield Limited

Background

Sellafield Ltd employs approximately 12,000 staff and is located on the West Cumbrian coast adjacent to the Irish Sea on the western outskirts of the Lake District National Park.

The site has been operational since the 1940s and led the development of the UK’s nuclear industry, from the production of plutonium for the country’s nuclear deterrent programme through to the development of nuclear power generation.

The site is home to Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station which operated between 1956 and 2003. Since the closure of Calder Hall and the three Windscale Reactors (Windscale Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor, Windscale Pile 1 and Windscale Pile 2) electricity is no longer generated at the site.

The focus of Sellafield Ltd is now on the remediation and clean-up of the hundreds of nuclear and non-nuclear facilities across the site; safe and secure storage of special nuclear materials; and the safe retrieval of nuclear waste from the legacy ponds and silos, for storage in modern facilities.

Hazard and risk reduction at Sellafield is both a national decommissioning priority and one of our top regulatory priorities.

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