Sellafield Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements 2021/22
These are the financial statements of Sellafield Ltd’s performance in the financial year 2021 to 2022.
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The safe, secure and sustainable operation of the Sellafield site remained our priority.
Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, we continue to make progress towards our purpose of creating a clean and safe environment for future generations.
That progress included:
Progress at pace
- making progress towards the end of reprocessing operations in the Magnox Reprocessing plant
- processed the final batch of plutonium arising from Thorp reprocessing operations, signalling the end of Finishing Line 6 operations
- successfully completed a test run to move 3m3 boxes of nuclear waste into The Box Encapsulation Plant Product Store Direct Import Facility
- continued work on construction delivery, including installation of a 750-tonne crane next to the Box Encapsulation Plant, ready for retrievals from the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo
- in the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo, progressed installation of the second Silo Emptying Plant machine and moved the first Silo Emptying Plant machine into position to start retrievals
- moved the 175-tonne waste retrievals module which will be getting nuclear waste out of the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo sideways for the first time
- delivered the first ready-to-use Self Shielded Box to site, ready to store nuclear waste from legacy ponds in the new Interim Storage Facility
- started retrieving solid waste from the Redundant Settling Tank
Safe, secure sustainable, site stewardship
- successful repatriation of intermediate-level waste to Australia.
- removed the Windscale Pile 1 Chimney diffuser, removing the seismic risk associated with the chimney from the Sellafield site
- took delivery of 2 new hybrid trains, replacing older and less environmentally friendly engines, part of the company’s plan to replace solely diesel locomotives with smaller all electric 40-tonne versions
- issued updated Enterprise Risk Assessments in response to government guidance and brought to a close the on-site test and trace facility, which had its last day of operations on 31 March 2022
- confirmed that all the containers which hold vitrified high-level waste are now ready for return overseas as they have been filled, cleaned, weighed and checked (known as pre-attribution)
Lifetime value for money
- £1.3 million investment under the Sellafield Ltd Social impact, multiplied (SiX) programme towards the development and creation of the Industrial Solutions Hub entity, working with Copeland Borough Council and Programme and Project Partners
- launched the West Cumbria Mental Health Partnership, part of £1.8 million investment under the Sellafield Ltd SiX programme Transforming West Cumbria programme, led by Cumbria Community Foundation
- opened the Engineering and Maintenance Facility at Leconfield, Cleator Moor and the first Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration hub in Whitehaven (RAICo1)
- recruited 200 apprentices across 20 career pathways
- launched diversity and inclusion training to help all employees understand the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, and to understand the law in this area. Continued to grow employee networks and invested in training aligned to a range of initiatives including promotion of mental health champions
That progress was made possible thanks to the efforts of our employees and supply chain partners.
We also continued to invest in research and development (£72 million), recruited a new cohort of apprentices and graduates, and continued to invest in our communities through our SiX programme (£7.4 million).
For more details on our progress, sustainability, safety and social impact in 2021/22, look out for our Annual Review of Performance.