Sellafield

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Sellafield is a nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning site on the coast of Cumbria in northwest England.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf industrial facility
nuclear decommissioning site
nuclear reprocessing site
constructionBegan 1940s
country United Kingdom
employs thousands of workers
formerName Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Calder Hall

Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Windscale
gridReference NY030060
hasAccident Windscale fire
hasAlternativeName Sellafield
surface form: Sellafield nuclear complex

Sellafield
surface form: Sellafield nuclear site
hasEnvironmentalConcern radioactive discharges to the Irish Sea
hasFacility Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Calder Hall nuclear power station

High Level Waste Storage Tanks
MOX fuel fabrication plant
Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Magnox reprocessing plant

Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sellafield nuclear fuel storage ponds

Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sellafield reprocessing plants

Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Windscale Piles
hasNearbyRailwayStation Sellafield railway station
hasOwnerType state-owned
hasReprocessingActivity Magnox fuel
oxide fuel
hasSecurityLevel high security site
hasSiteArea about 6 square kilometres
locatedIn Borough of Copeland
Cumbria
England
North West England
locatedNear Seascale
Whitehaven
locatedOnCoastOf Irish Sea
managedBy Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
operatedBy Sellafield self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sellafield Ltd
ownedBy Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
primaryFunction nuclear decommissioning
nuclear fuel reprocessing
radioactive waste management
region Cumbria
regulator Environment Agency (England)
surface form: Environment Agency

Office for Nuclear Regulation
status undergoing long-term decommissioning
usedFor civil nuclear power generation (historical)
plutonium production for nuclear weapons (historical)
windscaleFireDate 1957

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Sellafield operatedBy Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sellafield Ltd
Sellafield formerName Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Windscale
Sellafield formerName Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Calder Hall
Sellafield hasFacility Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Magnox reprocessing plant
Sellafield hasFacility Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Calder Hall nuclear power station
Sellafield hasFacility Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Windscale Piles
Sellafield hasFacility Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sellafield nuclear fuel storage ponds
Sellafield hasFacility Sellafield self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sellafield reprocessing plants
Sellafield hasAlternativeName Sellafield
this entity surface form: Sellafield nuclear complex
Sellafield hasAlternativeName Sellafield
this entity surface form: Sellafield nuclear site
Orano hasMajorSite Sellafield
this entity surface form: La Hague reprocessing plant