Sellafield Nuclear Waste Site to Close Due to Corona Virus

摘要

Britain's nuclear waste site will shut its reprocessing plant at Sellafield after more than 8% of its staff began self-isolating to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The controlled shutdown of the Magnox plant in Cumbria will begin in the next few days after an outbreak of the Covid-19 virus within Sellafield's 11,500 staff. The company told employees that it would "scale back some operations" to "make best use of available people". Sellafield revealed last weekend that a staff member had tested positive for coronavirus, and on Monday it confirmed that another employee with suspected Covid-19 had begun self-isolation. The number of Sellafield employees self-isolating has quickly climbed to about 1,000. A Sellafield spokesman said the number in self-isolation included people with symptoms of the virus as well as those with underlying health conditions who undertaking social distancing.