All spent nuclear fuel has been removed from the site of the former Hunterston B power station, leading to it being declared ...

The defueling of the second of two reactors at Hunterston B means the plant has become the first of the UK's seven advanced ...

Matthew Okuhara, a former armed officer with the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, fears that current security plans will be inadequate to protect the UK's next generation of nuclear power plants ...

The deployment of advanced nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors, presents a ...

The cost of decommissioning nuclear power plants is under scrutiny as the UK ... Most of the waste is stored at Sellafield, where 140 tonnes of plutonium is held in decaying containers and ageing ...

packaging them into large flasks before transport to Sellafield in Cumbria for long-term storage. Owners say the nuclear power plant saved 172 million tonnes of CO2 entering the atmosphere ...

Nuclear power plants are very expensive machines to build ... Most of the waste from the UK's nuclear programme is stored at Sellafield in Cumbria, some at Dounreay in Scotland, and there are ...