In brief

摘要

The latest stage of decommissioning Calder Hall, the world's first civil nuclear power producing plant, is underway with the removal of the first batch of spent fuel from the reactors. The overall defuelling programme is expected to take up to six years. The fuel will be removed from the reactors and transferred elsewhere on the Sellafield site for reprocessing. Upon completion, the reactors and associated infrastructure will progressively be decommissioned to enable the site, which was opened in 1956, to enter into a 'care and maintenance' phase.