Sellafield

Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to on the coast of , England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning.
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  • Type: Industry
  • Description: Nuclear reprocessing and waste treatment and storage site in Cumbria, England
  • Also known as: “Sellafield (United Kingdom)”, “Sellafield Nuclear reprocessing plant”, and “Sellafield nuclear site”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant and Sellafield railway station.

Building
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , or THORP, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at in , England. THORP is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and operated by Sellafield Ltd, the site licensee. is situated 560 feet south of Sellafield.

Railway station
Photo: John Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sellafield is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It serves , in , England; it is situated 35 miles north-west of Barrow-in-Furness. is situated 1,900 feet west of Sellafield.

Archaeological site
is a restored stone circle near in , England. It is situated near the site of the former nuclear-power stations at . is situated 1 mile southeast of Sellafield.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Seascale and Calder Bridge.

Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and civil parish on the coast of , England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.

Village
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is a small village in in England. It is located between the hamlets of and and lies on the River Calder. It is around 1 mile northeast from the nuclear plant— was the world's first major nuclear power station when it opened in 1956. is situated 2 miles northeast of Sellafield.

Hamlet
Photo: Nigel Monckton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in , England. It is northeast of and , along the A595 road. It contains properties such as the Inn, Farm and Brow House. is situated 2 miles north of Sellafield.

Sellafield

Latitude
54.41768° or 54° 25′ 4″ north
Longitude
-3.50167° or 3° 30′ 6″ west
Open location code
9C6RCF9X+38
Open­Street­Map ID
way 335158741
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Wiki­data ID
Q1063567
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Sellafield” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sellafield”
  • Arabic: “مجمع سيلافيلد النووي”
  • Asturian: “Sellafield”
  • 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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