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Employer: Sellafield Ltd

Who Are They?

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:

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

Sectors

Energy, Engineering, Nuclear

Employer Size

Large enterprise

Focus/reach

national

Case Studies

Jack Haworth

Electrical Engineer at Sellafield

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