Case Study
Sellafield
Sellafield Sellafield is one of the most complex and compact nuclear sites. Activities are centred around remediation, decommissioning and clean up of the historic legacy. The site is also home to the Thorp and Magnox reprocessing plants, the Sellafield MOX plant and a wide range of waste management and effluent treatment facilities. It is responsible for the operation of the Sellafield Site Contract, on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency. The nuclear industry has invested substantial amounts of money in new plants to treat and package waste from reprocessing operations. High level waste (HLW) is waste that remains when the uranium and plutonium have been reprocessed. Sellafield Ltd has utilised process data analysis using MS2 software in the 3 vitrification lines that convert co