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Sellafield Ltd is responsible for safely delivering decommissioning, reprocessing and nuclear waste management activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority at the Sellafield plant in West Cumbria.
Sellafield’ s primary operations include; Risk and hazard reduction including decommissioning legacy ponds and silos, some of the oldest facilities on the Sellafield site, commercial operations including spent fuel management, the safe treatment of low level, intermediate level and high level waste and asset care and maintenance.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) independently regulates nuclear safety and security at 36 nuclear licenced sites across the UK. They are also responsible for the regulation of transport and the safeguarding of nuclear and radioactive materials with a duty is to ensure that the nuclear industry controls its hazards effectively, has a culture of continuous improvement and maintains high standards.
The nuclear industry is undergoing rapid change and ONR’s role as a regulator is vital in ensuring new nuclear facilities are designed, built and operated to the highest standards, and in a manner that improves public confidence without compromising safety or security. Also overseeing the decommissioning of nuclear sites and cooperating with international regulators their work is critical to the protection of society at large.