British Nuclear Group, Sellafield

The Sellafield site, covering an area of approximately 4 square kilometres on the West Cumbrian coast just north of the village of Seascale, represents the most challenging nuclear site management programme in the world. Managed and operated by British Nuclear Group on behalf of the site owner, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, activities centre on remediation, decommissioning and clean-up of the historic legacy. The site is also home to the Thorp and Magnox reprocessing plants, the Sellafield Mixed Oxide Fuel manufacturing plant and a wide range of waste management and effluent treatment facilities. Our primary objective at the site as the tier 1 management and operations contractor is to continue to manage plant operations an extensive clean-up and decommissioning programme which is carried out day-to-day by site licensee company British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd.