The first used fuel has been placed into a space-saving storage rack at the storage pond for Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor fuel at the Thorp reprocessing plant on the Sellafield site in Cumbria, UK. One ...
A nuclear storage facility has begun storing spent fuel in a new rack system. Sellafield Ltd, in Cumbria, said the first deposits have been placed into a space-saving storage rack that would allow ...
Without this rack, a new storage pond would have to be built, potentially costing billions of pounds. The rethink was required because Thorp needs to store more fuel than previously thought.