Sellafield

British

/ ˈsɛləˌfiːld /

noun

Former name: Windscale. the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria

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Sellafield, in Cumbria, currently deals with most of the country's waste, but it is running out of space and costs are spiralling.

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Taxpayers today are still paying for Sellafield to deal with nuclear waste from the 1950s.

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Although the committee noted there were "signs of improvement", PAC chairman Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said Sellafield continued to present "intolerable risks".

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Pointing to the fact that Sellafield Ltd had missed most of its annual targets for retrieving waste from buildings, including the MSSS, the committee warned: "The consequence of this underperformance is that the buildings are likely to remain extremely hazardous for longer."

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Sir Geoffrey said it was of "vital importance that the government grasp the daily urgency of the work taking place at Sellafield and shed any sense of a far-off date of completion for which no-one currently living is responsible".

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