A union is calling for radioactive plutonium at a nuclear plant to be recycled into new nuclear fuel instead of stored. In ...

The second of three planned shipments of high-level radioactive waste has left the Sellafield site in northwest England and ...

The UK has launched a £1m ($1.3m) research partnership to explore the use of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, has been the center of the UK's nuclear industry since the 1950s. While the site is ...

SELLAFIELD is hoping to permanently retain a three-storey modular building just off the west Cumbrian nuclear site after submitting plans for ...

THERE have been ongoing problems with 'joyriding' in an off-site Sellafield car park in Cleator. Workers leave their vehicles in the car park and then use a bus service to get to the Sellafield site.

Schoolchildren from across West Cumbria have competed for a spot in the FIRST LEGO League National competition.

A man has been arrested in the Penrith area on suspicion of possession of controlled drugs with intent to supply.

York Outer MP Luke Charters reviews his month in Parliament and in York, including work on Labour efforts to tackle anti-social behaviour ...

As previously announced, the UK will be returning high level waste (HLW) in the form of vitrified residues to Germany. The ...

TRAINS along the Cumbrian Coast line are being affected - after a failure with the electricity supply has blocked the line between Sellafield ...