A Northern Ireland MP has welcomed newspaper reports that the Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield in north west England will shut in 2010. On Tuesday, in response to a report in The Guardian, ...

Reprocessing operations have ended at the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) at the Sellafield site in the UK after 24 years. The facility will now be used to store used nuclear fuel until the ...

Britain’s worst nuclear accident in recent years occurred in 2005 at its Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) at the country’s Sellafield nuclear complex. A subsequent investigation found that ...

[British Nuclear Group, NDA, 10 January] Operator British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd (BNGSL) has been granted permission to restart the Thorp used nuclear fuel recycling facility at Sellafield by ...

In 1995, escalating fears of a radiation accident at the Sellafield/Thorp nuclear facilities in Cumbria in the UK led the Irish government to consider taking legal action. Then-taoiseach John Bruton ...

Fuel reprocessing, a technology that helped launch the world’s nuclear industry half a century ago, is to be abandoned by Britain. However, the UK industry’s hope of using the plutonium it produced ...

Sellafield (formerly known as Windscale) is a nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England. Facilities ...

Part of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria has had to be closed after a fault was found. One of three evaporators - used to condense highly radioactive liquid - was shut down after a ...

The Irish government considered taking legal action against Sellafield in the mid-1990s, according to archive documents. Then-taoiseach John Bruton raised the issue with British prime minister John ...

Ireland was considering taking legal action against the Sellafield/Thorp nuclear facilities in north-west England in the mid-1990s amid escalating fears of a radiation accident. Newly released ...