Reprocessing
5 sites
Sellafield
The sprawling Cumbrian site that began as Windscale plutonium production, then reprocessed fuel in the Magnox and THORP plants, le...
Mayak
The Urals complex that produced plutonium for the first Soviet bomb and still reprocesses spent fuel. The 1957 Kyshtym tank explos...
La Hague
The plant at cap de la Hague in Normandy is the largest commercial reprocessing facility in the west, dissolving spent fuel from F...
West Valley
A demonstration reprocessing plant in New York state that ran only from 1966 to 1972, leaving contaminated soil and a burial groun...
Rokkasho
The huge plant in Aomori prefecture intended to reprocess Japanese fuel and close the nuclear cycle, under construction and commis...