Sellafield Completes New Waste Storage Facility

Sellafield Limited has completed construction of a new storage facility for intermediate level waste generated through decommissioning and fuel reprocessing. The Encapsulated Product Store 3 is an above ground storage building that can store over 29,000 waste drums. “The completion of EPS 3 marks a major milestone in the decommissioning of Sellafield. This facility is a key piece in the jigsaw of projects we need to clean-up the most hazardous areas of the site – the NDA’s number one priority task,” Pete Lutwyche, Sellafield programme Director for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, said in a statement. “Once opened, the building will provide world-class, modern storage of waste for many years to come, pending its ultimate transfer to the safest and most secure method of dealing with this material – disposal in a deep geological facility.”