Performance Updates
Find out more about Sellafield (including Calder Hall and Windscale)'s Performance, visit our Programme Performance Updates section.
See also
Site Progress Key
On target |
On target |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind target with possibility of recovery |
Behind target |
Behind target |
Safety and Environmental Performance Key
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more INES Level 1 or above in the month |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more RIDDOR reportable events in the month |
| Environmental Safety |
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No incidents in the month |
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One or more environmental non compliances in the month |
Sellafield (including Calder Hall and Windscale)
Sellafield
Seascale
Cumbria
CA20 1PG
Tel. 019467 28333
Sellafield is a large and complex nuclear chemical facility located in West Cumbria. The site has played a pivotal role within the nuclear industry since the 1940s. Site operations include fuel reprocessing, fuel fabrication and storage of nuclear materials and radioactive wastes.
Calder Hall, located on the site, was the world's first commercial nuclear power station. Generation started in 1956 and ceased in 2003.
Windscale, also located on the site, comprises three reactors. Two of the reactors were shut down in 1957 and the third one was closed in 1981. Substantial damage by fire to one of the reactors in 1957 has created significant additional decommissioning challenges.
Overview
| Age | Operated since 1947 |
|---|---|
| Site Stakeholder Group | West Cumbria Site Stakeholder Group (WCSSG) |
| Site Licensee | Sellafield Limited |
| Parent Body Organisation | Nuclear Management Partners (NMP) Ltd |
| Status | Defuelling and Partial Decommissioning |
| Cost - Lifetime (total discounted nuclear liability) |
£32,066m |
* The costs of discharging the nuclear liability will be incurred over a significant period of time. To take account of the time value of money, the costs are "discounted" back to a present value. Effectively this is the amount that would need to be invested today, at a set rate of interest (the discount rate) in order to pay for the liability in the future as it falls due.
| Year | Key Activities |
|---|---|
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2120 |
Final site clearance |
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2105 - |
Calder Hall final site clearance |
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2075 |
Transfer of stored HLW to HLW repository |
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2046 |
All ILW from the Legacy Ponds and Silos retrieved, conditioned and stored |
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2040 |
Transfer of stored ILW to Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) |
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2030 |
Windscale Pile 1 and 2 in Care and Maintenance with fuel and isotopes removed |
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2026 |
Vitrification of liquid HLW complete First Generation Magnox Storage Pond - start of residual retrievals |
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2024 |
Calder Hall site enters Care and Maintenance phase |
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2021 |
Vitrification of liquid HLW complete |
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2019 |
Complete return of overseas customers HLW |
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2018 |
Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - start of waste retrievals Magnox Swarf Storage Silos - start of bulk retrievals THORP reprocessing complete |
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2017 |
Pile Fuel Storage Pond - start of residual retrieval |
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2016 |
Magnox reprocessing completed |
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2015 |
Highly Active Liquor (HAL) stocks reduced to "steady state" volume First Generation Magnox Storage Pond - start of bulk retrievals |
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2014 |
Completion of defuelling at Calder Hall |
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2013 |
Complete Active commissioning of Sellafield Product and Residue Store (SPRS) |
Progress against this year's targets
Status as at end of financial year 2012/13 (Progress against Quarter 1 of 2012/13 will be reported in July 2013)
Site Restoration
| Target | Status | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
First Generation Magnox Storage Pond - Complete construction of Sludge Packaging Plant 1 buffer storage facility |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
First Generation Magnox Storage Pond - Commence retrieval of fuel from pond floor |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Capenhurst - Continue to process uranic residues |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Capenhurst - Progress site integration into URENCO |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Decommissioning - Continue to retrieve and treat, for long-term storage, legacy flocculent from the flocculent storage tanks |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Decommissioning - Progress removal of filter gallery from Windscale Chimney Pile 1 |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Magnox Swarf Storage Silo - Complete ‘project concept’ design review for Silos Direct Encapsulation Plant |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Magnox Swarf Storage Silo - Complete seismic improvements on second extension |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Magnox Swarf Storage Silo - Complete the Silo Emptying Plant assembly |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Pile Fuel Cladding Silo Programme - Complete Retrievals Access Penetration detailed design |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Pile Fuel Cladding Silo Programme - Complete construction of the superstructure to house the equipment needed to retrieve waste from the silo |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Pile Fuel Storage Pond - Commence the transfer of oxide fuel from the pond for storage |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Pile Fuel Storage Pond - Continue removal of contaminated metal for treatment and storage |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Pile Fuel Storage Pond - Continue removal of sludge from the pond |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Pile Fuel Storage Pond - Continue the transfer of metal from the pond for storage |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Nuclear Materials
| Target | Status | Commentary |
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Continue the safe and secure storage of plutonium in line with UK policy |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Explore the consolidation of materials across the NDA estate |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Sellafield is the custodian of the majority of the UK's stock of plutonium and its safe secure storage is of the utmost priority. Consolidation of materials is an ongoing activity and will continue to be part of the sites mission. |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Spent Fuels
| Target | Status | Commentary |
|---|---|---|
AGR Programme – ongoing removal of Multi-Element Bottles (MEBs) from THORP |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Continue to receive Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR) fuel from EDF |
On target |
2012/13 target complete
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Continue to reprocess Magnox Fuel in line with the Magnox Operating Programme |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met
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Continue to reprocess oxide fuel through Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) from EDF and overseas customers |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Receive the first batch of Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR) Breeder fuel at Sellafield |
On target |
2012/13 target complete
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Integrated Waste Management
| Target | Status | Commentary |
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Continue to process HAL through the Waste Vitrification Plant |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Continue to receive further module deliveries for the construction of Evaporator D |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Continue to repatriate overseas owned vitrified HAL to country of origin |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Continue to transfer legacy Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM) to modern engineered stores |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Diversion of materials from LLWR in line with the LLW Strategy implementation and optimisation |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Critical Enablers
| Target | Status | Commentary |
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Implementation of the focus areas of the Integrated Change Programme (ICP) across all operating units |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Achieve a 20% reduction in support and overhead costs releasing revenues for decommissioning and clean-up |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Complete handover of refurbished Grid Transfers |
On target |
2012/13 target complete |
Complete handover of the boiler park from Sellafield to Fellside |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Continue the Sellafield infrastructure enhancement programme |
Behind target |
Target for 2012/13 has not been met |
Safety and Environmental Performance
Status as at end of financial year 2012/13 (Progress against Quarter 1 of 2012/13 will be reported in July 2013)
