A project team from Sellafield Ltd has been celebrating recently after achieving 69 individual 28 day periods and over 1,000,000 man-hours without a Lost Time Accident.

Commenting on this fantastic safety performance Cliff Roberts, project manager for the Separation Area Ventilation Project said: “The project team and contractors have carried out this work over the last 4 years in a very challenging environment.

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The Resident Engineer’s office on the Sellafield site has been safely demolished after 50 years of service.

The building originated at Springfields, Preston and was shipped up to Sellafield in the early 1980s where it has accommodated the Resident Engineer (RE), his department and the “Resident Engineers table”.

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The National Citizen Service (NCS) programme which was piloted last year in the UK has again been a great success for local students.

So much so that this year even more year 11 and 12 students from the Allerdale and Copeland areas of Cumbria have taken up the challenge with some even returning for a second time.

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Sellafield Ltd keeps a close eye on the market for promising technologies to add to out toolkit to safely manage nuclear materials and decommission the legacy nuclear plants

A new radiation detection device has been trialled at Sellafield which shows tremendous promise.  The UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) developed the RadBall® which uses an innovative combination of radiation-sensitive materials and shielding design to identify radiation sources.

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