Sellafield
Employer: Sellafield Ltd
Sellafield Ltd is chemical engineering company responsible for the decommissioning of the Sellafield nuclear site, which is owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The Sellafield nuclear site hosted the first the world’s first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, that exported electricity on a commercial scale to a public grid. Sellafield Ltd is in now responsible for cleaning and recycling onsite nuclear waste ensuring that is safe and secure. The video below explains in more details how they operate:Who Are They?
Careers
To clean, recycle and safety store nuclear waste Sellafield’s relies on a lot of different STEM, and non-STEM, based roles.
Among the different roles at Sellafield are:
- Chemical Engineers
- Process Engineers
- Physicists
- Civil Engineers
- Project manager
- Laboratory analysts
- Business analyst
- Operation managers
- Engineering apprentices
You can see what current vacancies Sellafield are available here.
Science links
Topics in Science that links with Sellafield Ltd and what the company does:
- Energy
- Electricity
- Atomic Structure
- Radioactivity
Tag Archive for: Nuclear
Nuclear Fuel – year 10
About one-fifth of the electricity generated in the UK comes from nuclear power plants, like the one operated by EDF Energy near Hartlepool. These plants use nuclear fuel – such as uranium – to boil water which is used to drive steam turbines. The process does not produce carbon dioxide. This worksheet checks students’ knowledge of nuclear fission and explores how nuclear power generation works, and some of the issues surrounding its use.
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Atoms and Nuclear Radiation – Year 9
Worksheet: Atoms and Radiation
(Year 9)
Nuclear radiation is useful in modern medicine, and beyond. Kromek is a County Durham-based company who make radiation detectors for the medical, nuclear and security sectors.
This worksheet builds on students’ knowledge of radiation, in the context of medical applications.
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Sectors
Energy, Engineering, Nuclear
Employer Size
Large enterprise
Focus/reach
national
Case Studies
Jack Haworth
Electrical Engineer at Sellafield
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