The Windscale nuclear reactor was built in the 1940s near Sellafield, a remote farm area of northern England, to supply nuclear power to the region. This early reactor was designed with a large graphite block in which cans containing the uranium fuel...

Sellafield is the name of a nuclear site, close to the village and railway station of Seascale, operated by Sellafield Ltd, but owned since 1 April 2005 by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Previously Sellafield was owned and operated by BNFL....

Sir: It is surprising and shocking to find a group of Danish scientists opposing the Danish Environment Minister's proposal to end nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield (letter, 12 May). Reprocessing is an old, polluting business. It is also completely pointless, since the main product is...

THE NUCLEAR industry's plans to dispose of its waste deep underground near Sellafield in Cumbria will suffer a severe setback this week. Cumbria County Council is expected to refuse planning permission for a underground laboratory vital to the industry's plans. Instead, the...

Britain's government is investigating allegations that body parts were removed from nuclear workers after their deaths and tested for radiation over several decades, the trade minister said Wednesday.Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling said he authorized the investigation after unions alleged that vital organs were...

The two oldest commercial nuclear power stations in the world were closed down Sunday after 40 years of service, the British Nuclear Group said.Reactors at Dungeness A, southeast of London, and Sizewell A, in eastern England, were being shut down over a period of several...