Sellafield: A Fact File

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An aerial view of the site at Sellafield Credit: PA Wire

Did you know?

  • The Sellafield site covers 6 square kilometres

  • 10,000 employees are employed by the company

  • There are over 1,000 nuclear facilities on the Sellafield site - making it the largest in Europe

  • Nuclear fuel has been reprocessed at the Sellafield site for over 50 years

  • Almost half of the UK’s nuclear workforce is based at Sellafield

  • Sellafield was regarded a vital part of the war effort during the Second World War - as it housed one of the factories which built explosives

  • The Sellafield site is as old as the UK’s nuclear industry itself