Sellafield Reprocessing Plant (UK)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Sellafield_Reprocessing_Plant_(UK)
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:nuclear_reactor
gptkbp:closed 2022
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:decommissioningCost tens of billions of pounds
gptkbp:employs thousands of workers
gptkbp:environmentalImpact radioactive discharges to Irish Sea
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sellafield Reprocessing Plant (UK)
gptkbp:location Sellafield, Cumbria, England, UK
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Windscale_fire_(1957)
gptkbp:notableFor largest nuclear site in Western Europe
major center for nuclear fuel reprocessing in UK
storage of nuclear waste
gptkbp:notableInstitution gptkb:Thermal_Oxide_Reprocessing_Plant_(THORP)
gptkb:Magnox_Reprocessing_Plant
gptkbp:opened 1952
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:Nuclear_Decommissioning_Authority
gptkbp:previousOwner British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL)
gptkbp:processedMaterial gptkb:Magnox_fuel
oxide fuel
gptkbp:producedMaterial gptkb:uranium
high-level radioactive waste
plutonium
gptkbp:purpose reprocessing spent nuclear fuel
gptkbp:regulates Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
gptkbp:status decommissioning
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:MOX_fuel
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6