Sellafield includes the old Cold War Windscale nuclear plant which was the site of one oof the worlds worst nuclear disasters... see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire British nuclear reprocessing plant Sellafield said it had detected elevated levels of radioactivity at one of its on-site monitors and was operating at reduced staffing levels on Friday... The plant is located in Cumbria, northwest England.... Since 2005, the plant has been owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Sellafield Ltd. In 2008, the NDA contracted the management of Sellafield Ltd to Nuclear Management Partners, a consortium of U.S. company URS, British company AMEC, and Frances Areva. The initial contract was for five years with the option to extend to 17 years. Facilities at the site include THORP (thermal oxide reprocessing plant) and the Magnox nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. It is also the site of the remains of Calder Hall, which is being decommissioned, as well as some other older nuclear facilities at Windscale... The plant is going through a decommissioning programme, which includes dismantling infrastructure and decontaminating nuclear waste. The cost of decommissioning the plant has been estimated at over 70 billion pounds ($115 billion)... uk.news.yahoo/factbox-britain-39-sellafield-nuclear-reprocessing-plant-093127391--sector.html#KLKGT3F en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield
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