The Art of Reprocessing, at the Beacon in Whitehaven, tells the story of the plant through works by local, national, and international artists, including sculptures, relief printing, collages, textural canvases, paintings, sketches and more. The exhibition celebrates the life of Sellafield’s Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp), which has stopped reprocessing nuclear fuel after 24 years.
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Transformation Director Angela Seeney writes that in 2018 “the Sellafield nuclear site has had one of the most significant years of change in its 60 year history”. The 11,000 workforce and a vast supply chain are ending the main business of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing to carry out the environmental clean-up of the most complex and hazardous nuclear site in the UK, on the west coast of Cumbria. A new video has reminded workers how much the company has changed in the last 12 months.
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