For several years, inspectors from Euratom, the EU nuclear energy inspectorate has been unable to gain access to a pond at Sellafield, called B30, that stores irradiated fuel because of high radiation ...

The Minister for the Environment has welcomed EU findings that proper records have not been kept of nuclear material stored at a pond on the Sellafield complex. Speaking on RTÉ's Prime Time last night ...

Europe's most hazardous nuclear site, which is in Cumbria, has a leak that's getting worse and may threaten the public. Leaked official documents show that Sellafield's board members were warned in ...

Safety concerns at Europe’s most hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with US, Norway and Ireland Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of ...

BRITAIN has failed to meet an EU-imposed deadline on how it will clean-up a radioactive site at Sellafield. Although the British government was due to respond by June 1 and present an action plan to ...

This week the Guardian has been running a series of exposés about safety at Sellafield, the nuclear waste reprocessing plant on the west coast of Cumbria, some 130km from Co Down as the crow flies – ...