The Reform of Near Term and Lifecycle Planning for the Sellafield Group of Sites and the Associated Reorganisation of the UK Nuclear Industry

摘要

Sellafield, situated on the edge of the Lake District in the North West of England, was at one time an ordnance factory, then a part of the UK Nuclear Weapons programme and is now the home of civil nuclear fuel reprocessing in the UK. It consists of about 1000 buildings and facilities ranging from those built in the 1940s to plants still under construction in a site area of about two square miles. As well as modern chemical processing facilities, the site contains old stores of miscellaneous nuclear waste from the 1940s and modern stores containing waste arising from current activities. Next to Sellafield are Calder Hall, the first commercial nuclear power station in the UK (now being decommissioned) and the UK's only Low Level Waste Repository at Drigg. Together these sites are known as the Sellafield group of sites, and represent about 70% of the UK Civil Nuclear Liabilities.