The site’s Thorp plant has completed its 24-year mission to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from around the world.

Climate change is an immediate and present problem – not a long-term one that can be kicked down the road until we have time to deal with it, writes Darren Jones

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the NIA, said:

The withdrawal of Toshiba from the Moorside nuclear power station project is ‘a cruel blow’ to the north west economy on which thousands of future jobs are depending, Unite the union said today. 

Following the recently published Public Accounts Committee report into risk reduction at Sellafield, Jamie Reed reflects on the past twelve months of progress at the West Cumbrian site - one of the biggest environmental remediation challenges in Europe.

Labour has a clear plan to reach 'Net Zero' emissions by 2050, and we’re determined to lead the way, writes Alex Sobel

Lord Deben is as intrepid and combative an advocate for the environment as anyone concerned about climate change could want. Ahead of Green GB Week, and as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues a dire new warning on rising temperatures, the chair of the Committee on Climate Change sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to discuss why the UK’s current trajectory is worrying, and how it will be affected by Trump and Brexit

After this week's worrying report from the IPCC, the UK government must step up to the plate and take bold action on global warming, writes Alan Whitehead 

World Mental Health Day on 10th October was once again a reminder for Sellafield Ltd employees to think about their mental health.

Sellafield Ltd has announced it will fund 50 new apprenticeships a year for small companies in Cumbria.

The Business and Industry minister Richard Harrington joined a panel of energy experts including the Nuclear Industry Association and Sellafield, to discuss nuclear power and renewables at Conservative party conference.

Highly-paid water company bosses would be sacked under Labour's plans to renationalise the industry, John McDonnell 

John McDonnell has pledged that the next election will usher in a "radical" Labour government as he put his party on a war footing in preparation for a snap election.

The energy industry continues to go through a period of rapid transformation, from the huge growth in renewable electricity generation to the new, exciting move to local flexible grids that will unlock the value of maturing technologies such as electric vehicles, micro generation and battery storage.

A chain of northern companies has begun manufacturing containers to store radioactive waste from one of the UK’s most important nuclear decommissioning projects.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has today published its North of Scotland Future Energy Scenarios report which sets out a range of credible future energy scenarios for its north of Scotland transmission network.

ETI Energy Storage & Distribution programme manager, Rebecca Sweeney looks at the role of energy storage within the network and which energy types or vectors (such as electricity, gas, hydrogen) need focus to help the UK adapt to a low carbon future.

Having dominated the Sellafield skyline for nearly 70 years, preparations to pull down the Windscale Pile One chimney are now complete.   

Continuing to drive its ambitions to end the sale of all new conventional petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2040, the UK government has recently pledged that half of all new car sales will be hybrid or electric by 2030 as part of its Road to Zero strategy. ETI Energy Storage & Distribution programme manager, Rebecca Sweeney looks at how the UK can overcome the infrastructure challenge to realise these bold plans.  

The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Greg Clark, has visited Sellafield to see for himself some of its most iconic legacy facilities. 

ETI Strategy Manager for Nuclear, Mike Middleton looks at how the nuclear industry can become cost competitive to provide baseload energy generation in a decarbonised UK system.

The offshore wind industry has been a major success story for the UK, due to falling costs achieved through research & development and large-scale deployment over the last decade. As an increasingly affordable source of low carbon energy, Andrew Scott, ETI Offshore Renewables Programme Manager looks at what other industries can learn from the offshore wind industry’s proven benefits of focused innovation for cost reduction. 

Responding to an article on 'Taxpayer liability for safety at the Wylfa Nuclear power project' Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the UK Nuclear Industry Association, said: 

Shadow SNP Spokesperson for Energy, Alan Brown MP, writes ahead of his Westminster Hall debate on 'Taxpayer liability for safety at the Wylfa Nuclear power project'.