GB. Cumbria. Sellafield Nuclear Power Station.

The Thorp Nuclear Reprocessing plant prior to opening formally waiting for government and regulatory approval.

Spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors is reprocessed to separate the 96% uranium and the 1% plutonium, which can be reused in mixed oxide fuel, from the 3% radioactive wastes, which are treated and stored at the plant. The uranium is then made available for customers to be manufactured into new fuel. The facility is due to close in 2018 once all existing reprocessing contracts have been fulfilled.

Facilities at the site include the Thorpe nuclear fuel reprocessing plant and the Magnox nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. It is also the site of the remains of Calder Hall, now being decommissioned, as well as some other older nuclear facilities at Windscale. It is close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.

1993.