Everything but the fuel

摘要

Once the magnesium-oxide-clad, natural uranium fuel elements from magnox plants were removed and shipped to Sellafield's magnox reprocessing plant, the oblong, poured reinforced concrete ponds, all different shapes and sizes (but all 6m deep), were left empty. Empty of fuel but full of other potentially hazardous material; the skips that held the fuel, cooling water, accumulated sludge at the bottom of the pond, and caesium and strontium contamination in the water, the sludae and the walls.