UK nuclear site could leak until 2050s, MPs warn

TDT | London

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Britain’s most hazardous building threatens to leak radioactive water until the 2050s unless the clean-up of a former nuclear power plant is quickened, UK lawmakers warned yesterday. The waste has been leaking into the ground from a storage silo at the Sellafield facility in Cumbria, in northwest England, since 2018 -- enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every three years.

Sellafield, which began operations in the 1940s, generated nuclear power between 1956 and 2003.

In a report published Wednesday, a group of British MPs criticised the pace of the decommissioning work, citing examples of “failure, cost overruns and continuing safety concerns”.