Meeting the Waste Challenge for Sellafield Cleanup

With over 200 nuclear facilities, Sellafield is the largest and most complex nuclear cleanup site in the world. It comprises activities that span the entire nuclear fuel cycle. British Nuclear Group is the primary contractor for the site that is now owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). The Waste Project Group, working in the Cleanup organization for British Nuclear Group at Sellafield, is responsible for providing a Low-level Waste (LLW) and Transuranic waste (TRU) management service. This paper sets out initiatives that are presently being pursued at Sellafield to meet the waste management challenge associated with the cleanup and how it meets the intent of the NDA national strategy for effective nuclear waste management.