Over the past three years engineers have removed 4,880 elements of spent fuel from Hunterston B, packaging them into large ...

A 1960s vacuum hoover is among deadly radioactive waste which is being recovered from one of the world's oldest nuclear sites. The domestic Electrolux cleaner was used to suck up dust at the ...

A vacuum cleaner has been found in one of the world's oldest nuclear waste stores in Cumbria. The Electrolux vacuum cleaner was found in Sellafield's Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, which has been a ...

The former Hunterston B power station in North Ayrshire has been formally declared nuclear free after three years of ...

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

The domestic Electrolux cleaner was used to suck up dust at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria during the 1950s and 1960s. It was dumped and locked away along with other radioactive debris in six ...

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 ...