Sellafield
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: Nuclear reprocessing and waste treatment and storage site in Cumbria, England
- Also known as: “Low Sellafield”, “Sellafield (United Kingdom)”, and “Sellafield nuclear site”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sellafield railway station and Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant.
Sellafield railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sellafield is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. It serves Sellafield, in Cumbria, England; it is situated 35 miles north-west of Barrow-in-Furness.
Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
Building
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, or THORP, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England. THORP is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Sellafield Ltd, the site licensee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calder Bridge and Blackbeck.
Calder Bridge
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Calder Bridge is a small village in Cumbria in England. It is located between the hamlets of Gosforth and Beckermet and lies on the River Calder. It is around 1 mile northeast from the Sellafield nuclear plant—Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station was the world's first major nuclear power station when it opened in 1956. Calder Bridge is situated 1½ miles northeast of Sellafield.
Blackbeck
Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackbeck is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is northeast of Beckermet and Sellafield, along the A595 road. It contains properties such as the Blackbeck Inn, Blackbeck Farm and Brow House. Blackbeck is situated 2 miles north of Sellafield.
Seascale
Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seascale is a village and civil parish on the Irish Sea coast of Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.
Sellafield
- Categories: nuclear facility and business
- Location: St. Bridget Beckermet, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Sellafield” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sellafield”
- Arabic: “مجمع سيلافيلد النووي”
- Breton: “Sellafield”
- Chinese: “卡德霍尔核电站”
- Chinese: “卡德霍爾核電站”
- Chinese: “塞拉菲尔德”
- Chinese: “塞拉菲尔德反应堆”
- Chinese: “塞拉菲尔德核电站”
- Chinese: “塞拉菲爾德”
- Chinese: “塞拉菲爾德反應堆”
- Chinese: “溫德斯卡萊”
- Chinese: “謝拉斐爾德”
- Czech: “Sellafield”
- Czech: “Windscale”
- Danish: “Sellafield”
- Dutch: “Kerncentrale Calder Hall”
- Dutch: “Sellafield”
- Dutch: “Windscale”
- Esperanto: “Sellafield”
- Finnish: “Sellafield”
- French: “Sellafield”
- French: “Usine de retraitement de Sellafield”
- French: “Windscale”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Sellafield”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Windscale AGR”
- German: “Kernkraftwerk Windscale”
- German: “Sellafield”
- German: “Windscale AGR”
- German: “Windscale”
- Indonesian: “Sellafield”
- Irish: “Sellafield”
- Italian: “Sellafield”
- Italian: “Windscale”
- Japanese: “ウィンズケール”
- Japanese: “セラフィールド”
- Japanese: “セラフィールド再処理工場”
- Korean: “셀라필드 원자력 단지”
- Korean: “셀라필드 원자력단지”
- Korean: “셀라필드”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sellafield”
- Norwegian: “Sellafield”
- Polish: “Sellafield”
- Portuguese: “Sellafield”
- Russian: “Кэлдер Холл”
- Russian: “Селлафилд”
- Scots: “Sellafield”
- Slovak: “Sellafield”
- Spanish: “Sellafield”
- Swedish: “Sellafield”
- Swedish: “Thorp”
- Swedish: “Windscale”
- Ukrainian: “Віндскейл”
- Ukrainian: “Колдер Голл”
- Ukrainian: “Селлафілд”
- Welsh: “Sellafield”
- Welsh: “Windscale”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as High Sellafield and Braystones.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Calder Hall nuclear power station and River Ehen.
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