Directory of Sellafield Reprocessing Plant Resources

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Sellafield is the controversial nuclear reprocessing plant, operated by British Nuclear Fuels, on the Cumbrian coast. Originally the 'Windscale and Calder Works', Calder Hall was the world's first commercial nuclear power station, and Windscale was the reprocessing plant that converted the waste products of nuclear power stations to re-useable uranium (96%), plutonium for nuclear weapons (1%), and the highly radioactive but useless fission products (3%). Radioactive discharges to the air and sea have given discomfort to various neighbouring countries especially Ireland and Norway, who are campaigning to have the plant closed.

Resources in This Category

• BBC News - What is nuclear reprocessing?

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/647981.stm
  BBC News Online examines the benefits and disadvantages of the nuclear fuel reprocessing system. Includes a description and graphic of the Sellafield process, and links to related Sellafield news items.

• Crisis deepens over British nuclear reprocessing plant

  http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/04/nuc-a03.html
  Article from World Socialist on international alarm over the production and storage of nuclear waste and reprocessed fuel at Sellafield.

• Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment

  http://www.corecumbria.co.uk/
  CORE's campaign remit is to cover all aspects of Sellafield's operations including the radioactive sea and air discharges, the resultant contamination of the local environment, and the health detriment to local communities and wildlife.

• Guardian Unlimited - Nuclear Reprocessing

  http://www.theguardian.com/nuclear/flash/0,6189,181369,00.html
  Find out how nuclear processing works at the Sellafield THORP plant, with this click-through graphic. [Flash required]

• Guardian Unlimited - Today's issues - Sellafield

  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/feb/18/energy.nuclearindustry
  feature on Sellafield in the Guardian, Friday February 18, 2000, with a description of what the plant does, why Sellafield is in the news, and questions why nuclear power is unpopular.

• Team Investigation of Sellafield

  http://www.onr.org.uk/team/team.htm
  Report from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into a multidisciplinary team inspection carried out by HSE into the control and supervision of operations at BNFL's site at Sellafield.

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