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Friday 29 August 2008
Coming soon... Conference at Rheged on 'Sellafield's Role in Britain's Energy Coast'
Sellafield will be the subject of a conference taking place at the Rheged Centre on Friday 24th October 2008. 'Sellafield's Role in Britain's Energy Coast' will include presentations on the Energy Coast initiative, the potential for new build in Cumbria, transition and skills, amongst others. There will also be a dinner in Rheged on Thursday 23rd October.
Thursday 28 August 2008
Sludge retrieval is big step in cleaning up historic legacy
An important programme in helping to clean up legacy waste, the floc retrieval project has recovered and encapsulated over 1,000 cubic metres of historic waste in the form of sludges in the past three years.
Friday 22 August 2008
Store construction team set new record
ONE of the largest ever concrete pours in Sellafield history has taken place during the construction
Friday 22 August 2008
Modules in place ahead of schedule
After 40,000 hours worked and three weeks ahead of schedule, the final storage module has been installed in the Sellafield Product Residue Store.
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Ex-employees visit Capenhurst during a recent open day
‘Great to be back on site’ was the overall view from ex-employees who recently called in at Capenhurst during the open days held recently.
Friday 1 August 2008
One of largest concrete pours at Sellafield
A successful major concrete pour on the construction of Encapsulated Product Store 3 (EPS3) saw the combined Sellafield Ltd / Laing O’Rourke EPS3 project team set another project performance record on 21 July 2008.
Thursday 31 July 2008
Thorp Uranium Recycled
In the last week, Sellafield Ltd has exported a shipment of reprocessed uranium to Russia for manufacture into new fuel. The uranium which is owned by European customers is the seventh such shipment of material from Thorp. Manufacturing new fuel from this reprocessed uranium proves the technical viability of reprocessing and will avoid mining 160te of fresh uranium from the ground.
Wednesday 23 July 2008
PLANS to turn West Cumbria into Britain’s Energy Coast
PLANS to turn West Cumbria into Britain’s Energy Coast have been unveiled by Business Secretary John Hutton at The Sellafield Centre today.
Monday 21 July 2008
All in a day's work
The dress code at Sellafield was a little more formal for some employees than normal recently, as they spruced up and polished their buttons to wear their uniform to work marking a special centenary.
Friday 11 July 2008
Parent Body Organisation – Preferred bidder announced
Today the NDA has announced Nuclear Management Partners Ltd, consisting of Washington International Holdings Ltd., AMEC and AREVA NC as the preferred bidder for the role of Parent Body Organisation for Sellafield Ltd.
Friday 4 July 2008
Helping others avoid major accidents
Sellafield Ltd’s director for environment, health, safety and quality recently accepted and invitation to speak at a prestigious health and safety conference at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Hall in London.
Thursday 3 July 2008
NEBOSH is no bother for Hayley
Congratulations to Hayley Hebson, environmental advisor Sellafield Ltd who has won the Martin Bessant Award for the highest achievement in the NEBOSH (National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health) specialist diploma in Environmental Management.
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Payroll Giving Gold Award 2008
Sellafield Ltd has been awarded The Payroll Giving Gold Award 2008 for fostering a culture of committed giving in the workplace, by making the payroll giving scheme available to employees.
Monday 23 June 2008
Winners of the 2008 North West Newspaper Awards Announced
The North West’s leading journalists collected prize money totalling some £5,000 at Sellafield Ltd sponsored North West Newspaper Awards presentation lunch at the Sellafield Centre Cumbria on 20 June 2008.
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Monte Carlo Users Group - 14th Annual Conference
Sellafield Ltd hosted the 14th Annual Conference of the UK Monte Carlo Users Group (MCNEG 2008) at the Birchwood Conference Centre at Risley. Some 80 delegates from 8 countries attended with 20% attendance from overseas. These delegates are working in the field of nuclear codes and data, twenty four scientific and technical papers were presented during the conference. Chair of the organising committee, Paul Hulse said, “Monte Carlo codes are used in a number of applications, Sellafield Ltd use them in criticality and shielding assessments in support of safety cases. More widely they are used for planning radiotherapy treatments in cancer therapy, design of instruments for space vehicles, reactor design, etc.”
Thursday 12 June 2008
Sellafield Ltd reponse to Government White Paper
Sellafield Ltd response to the Government White Paper on Managing Radioactive Waste Safely
Thursday 12 June 2008
Arrival of the Pacific Heron
A new PNTL vessel, the Pacific Heron, has arrived at her home port of Barrow-in-Furness.
Tuesday 10 June 2008
Sellafield scores hat-trick in CIPS awards nominations
Sellafield Ltd is celebrating a hat-trick today after reaching the final of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) Awards 2008 with nominations in three categories.
Sunday 8 June 2008
Sellafield couples hoping to 'win their wedding'
Lucky couples with Sellafield connections are hoping to scoop a big prize next week – their dream weddings, all paid for.
Friday 6 June 2008
20 year anniversary for Sellafield Visitors Centre
TODAY marks the twenty year anniversary since the opening of the Sellafield Centre.
Thursday 5 June 2008
Another first for Capenhurst
Capenhurst is the first UK nuclear site to use rope access instead of scaffolding to access areas that cannot be reached by scaffolding or scissor lifts.
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Resident Engineer Safety Awards at Sellafield
Winners of this year’s Resident Engineer Safety Awards were presented with safety shields at the Sellafield Contractors Charity dinner, held recently at the Washington Central, Workington.
Sunday 25 May 2008
2008 North West Newspaper Awards nominees announced
Sellafield Ltd is pleased to announce the nominations for the 2008 North West Newspaper Awards. The event now in its seventeenth year received record entries in all categories
Thursday 8 May 2008
Copeland MP to make first pour
COPELAND MP Jamie Reed will be at Sellafield on Friday to help with the first concrete pour on a major decommissioning project, and receive a cheque for £1,000 on behalf of charity, thanks to the project team’s excellent safety record.
Thursday 8 May 2008
Sellafield Ltd awarded certification
Notification has been received from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) of Sellafield Ltd's success in being awarded Certification in respect of its Purchasing Policies and Procedures.
Monday 5 May 2008
North West Newspaper Awards – you still have time to enter
You still have time to enter this year’s awards and be in with a chance of winning a slice of that £5,000 prize money.
Wednesday 30 April 2008
International Agency for research on cancer (IARC)
International Agency for research on cancer (IARC)
Wednesday 23 April 2008
TV Presenter Fiona Armstrong to host North West Newspaper Awards
Respected broadcaster Fiona Armstrong has been announced as the host of the North West Newspaper Awards, which are being held at the Sellafield Centre.
Monday 21 April 2008
Students celebrate success
Students celebrate success in new nuclear degree programme
Tuesday 15 April 2008
Changes to the Sounding of the Sellafield Emergency Siren
FROM 1st MAY 2008 the arrangements for sounding the site emergency siren will change. For many years the arrangements have been that the site siren would only be sounded when a Sellafield emergency has occurred. This is an incident on site that has or is likely to affect members of the public off site. It is the most serious incident on the site and would require members of the public in the vicinity to take urgent action to protect themselves.
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Calder wins fifth consecutive RoSPA Gold Medal Award
Calder Hall has been awarded the prestigious RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safety performance for the ninth consecutive year, resulting in the awarding of a fifth Gold Medal.
Wednesday 2 April 2008
Capenhurst completes second major contaminated building demolition in six weeks
Capenhurst’s nuclear clean-up team has completed another major demolition project safely, just over a month after it finished the biggest demolition in UK nuclear history.
Wednesday 2 April 2008
‘Safety state of mind’ sees Capenhurst win sixth consecutive safety award
Capenhurst nuclear clean-up site has won its sixth consecutive safety award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
Tuesday 1 April 2008
North West Newspaper Awards 2008 Launched
Sellafield Ltd has now launched their 17th North West Newspaper Awards with prize money totalling £5,000 across seven categories. The awards, sponsored by Sellafield Ltd and organised through the North West Region of the Society of Editors, are given in recognition of the best journalists and newspapers throughout Cumbria, Cheshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.
Tuesday 1 April 2008
Windscale Transition
Today sees the integration of the Windscale site with the Sellafield site. This follows over a year of preparatory work to ensure necessary licence arrangements are in place to allow the transfer to happen smoothly.
Friday 28 March 2008
Jamie Reed visits Sellafield to open tea bar
COPELAND MP Jamie Reed has been at Sellafield today to officially open a recently refurbished staff tea bar within Sellafield’s Effluent Treatment Plant.
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Supplier Forum April 2008
Our next Supplier Forum is being held on Tuesday 22nd April, 2008.
Wednesday 26 March 2008
Thorp restart
We started to shear fuel on 28 January for what is the second campaign of fuel since Thorp was shutdown in April 2005. Approximately 1te of fuel was sheared before the elevator which takes the fuel from the feed pond to the shear cave failed and production had to be stopped. The work has now been completed to get the plant back up and running again.
Thursday 20 March 2008
Energy efficiency accreditation
Sellafield Ltd has been re-accredited for its energy efficiency.
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Thursday 28 February 2008
Capenhurst's decommissioning progress and safety record praised following visit by Nuclear Decommissioning Authority CEO
Capenhurst’s nuclear clean-up and safety performance has been praised by the chief executive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which is the owner of the decommissioning site and the body in charge of UK civil nuclear clean-up.
Friday 22 February 2008
Capenhurst completes biggest demolition in UK nuclear history
Capenhurst’s nuclear clean-up team has completed the UK nuclear industry’s biggest demolition project as the site nears the completion of its decommissioning programme.
Thursday 14 February 2008
Celebrating business improvement
Peter Bainbridge, a manufacturing engineer in the Vitrification Plant, has just become the hundredth candidate to complete an NVQ in Business Improvement techniques, at the same time becoming the first person in Cumbria to gain the award at level four – the most prestigious on offer.
Monday 11 February 2008
Decommissioning looks to the future
The future looks bright for Sellafield Ltd employee Heather Moore, originally an engineering apprentice at GlaxoSmithKline, who has become a key player in formulating the future decommissioning strategies at Sellafield.
Monday 11 February 2008
End of an era for the Pacific Teal
One of the Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) fleet of ships used for transporting nuclear fuel between the UK and Japan has been taken out of service and sent for recycling.
Thursday 7 February 2008
SPRS team achieves 500,000 man hours since last LTA
The Sellafield Product Residue Store (SPRS) project reached a major milestone of 500,000 man hours and six consecutive months without a Lost Time Accident on Wednesday 6 February, a tremendous achievement for everyone involved on the project.
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Work starts on clearing Calder Hall tower rubble
SATURDAY 29 September 2007 saw the safe and successful explosive demolition of the four cooling towers at Calder Hall. Although this was the end of the highly visible demolition work, the arduous task of cleaning up the colossal 20,000 tonnes of rubble was just beginning.
Friday 1 February 2008
'Working at Sellafield's not so different from other industries'
As part of yesterday's launch of the National Skills Academy Nuclear, Sellafield Ltd employee Kylie McCarthy has been interviewed by BBC News Online about working in the nuclear industry and dispels some of the myths and rumours about life at Sellafield. Click here to read the article.
Thursday 24 January 2008
LTA success for Capenhurst
Workers at our Capenhurst site have delivered more than 1.5 million man hours of work – equivalent to more than four years, without a single Lost Time Accident (LTA). Capenhurst’s ‘Safety First’ campaign is a unique approach to health and safety, which allows employees on the shop floor, not managers, to be largely responsible for keeping hazards around the site under control – while all the time undertaking some of the biggest demolition projects in the North West.
Monday 21 January 2008
Celebrating quality
Sellafield Ltd employees, Joanne Hughes and Steve Smith, joined over 100 quality professionals from across the UK at the Chartered Quality Institute’s (CQI) annual John Loxham seminar and quality awards held on World Quality Day, 8 November, at Murrayfield, Edinburgh.
Wednesday 16 January 2008
INS Achieve Major Milestone in Safety Performance
INS has achieved a full 12 months without a Days Away Case, giving us a Days Away Case Rate (DACR) of zero. DACR is a measure defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and has been adopted across the BNFL Group as the primary measure of conventional safety performance.
Thursday 10 January 2008
The Future of Nuclear Power? Government Consultation
The government announcement is an exciting major milestone for the nuclear industry, West Cumbria and Sellafield Ltd. Sellafield Ltd will not be directly involved in the build and operation of new reactors as this is expected to be undertaken by electricity generating companies. These companies will consider where and when to invest subject to a range of regulatory approvals, including the acceptability of suitable sites. New build on land adjacent to the existing Sellafield Site may be attractive to these companies, as well as the local skills, experience and support of the local community as voiced through responses to the recent consultation on new nuclear build.
Thursday 10 January 2008
MEB export store open
Success has been the name of the game in Thorp Receipt and Storage as the new Multi Element Bottle (MEB) Export Facility (MEBXF) has started up.
