Sellafield Ltd

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Sealine recovery project
We have successfully removed three redundant pipelines running from the Sellafield site out into the Irish Sea, a significant project in the clean-up programme of the nuclear legacy. Known as the Sealine Recovery Project, we removed two sealines that were installed in 1949 and a temporary sealine installed in the early 1990s. ...

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14 news items

Appointment of Commercial Director, International Nuclear Services
19 July 2007
I am delighted to announce a further development in the evolution of the International Nuclear Services (INS) organisation following its establishment in October 2006. INS is a subsidiary company of Sellafield Limited with ownership held by Sellafield Limited (51%) and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (49%).

Arrival of the Pacific Heron
12 June 2008
A new PNTL vessel, the Pacific Heron, has arrived at her home port of Barrow-in-Furness.

British Nuclear Group team beats schedule by 18 months
26 July 2006
Successfully moving over seven thousand drums and 54 crates has resulted in British Nuclear Group\'s Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) stores team at Sellafield meeting their target an impressive 18 months ahead of schedule.

End of an era for the Pacific Teal
11 February 2008
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.

Innovation solutions aid PCM recovery
13 March 2006
Innovative solutions have enabled the Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) retrievals team at the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) to recover a number of drums containing PCM waste material which were temporarily stored within ISO containers inside a compound at the LLWR.

Innovative thinking improves throughput.
09 August 2006
Innovative thinking has resulted in a 20 per cent increase in throughput for British Nuclear Group in the THORP store.

Large deliveries to the LLWR
20 June 2007
The first of four large deliveries to the Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) will be made on Tuesday 26 June.

Local groups benefit as Pacific Teal dismantled
09 August 2007
Equipment is donated to worthy causes

Major land and sea decommissioning success
18 January 2006
A major land and sea decommissioning project took British Nuclear Group another step forward with the recovery of the final sections of redundant Sealine 1 from the seabed adjacent to Sellafield.

PNTL launches the Pacific Heron
10 May 2007
The launch of a new INF 3 class vessel, the Pacific Heron, for the Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) fleet took place today in Japan. Japanese shipbuilders Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Ltd, is currently building the Pacific Heron at Tamano shipyard, where the launch by sliding the vessel, stern first, down the slipway took place in front of a number of senior European and Japanese industry representatives.

PNTL welcomes two new additions to fleet
23 July 2007
Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) is delighted to announce the order of two new purpose built ships for transporting radioactive materials.

SPRS team proudly support veterans? night
19 November 2007
The team currently working on Sellafield’s new Product and Residue Store last night supported a veterans’ night held at the Cleator Moor Celtic Football Club by donating £750 towards the event.

Thorp Uranium Recycled
31 July 2008
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.

Tunnel roof removal
31 March 2005
A vital part of the Solid Waste Storage Silo decommissioning project at Sellafield was completed four weeks early and with no lost-time accidents for over six years when the team successfully removed the building's tunnel roof.