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Sellafield Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020/21

These are the financial statements of Sellafield Ltd’s performance in the financial year 2020 to 2021.

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Sellafield Ltd Annual Report and Financial Statements 2020/21

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The safe, secure and sustainable operation of the Sellafield site remained our priority in what was an exceptional and unprecedented year.

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:

  • Removing half of the solid waste from the Pile Fuel Storage Pond putting the programme on track to remove almost all radioactive material by 2024.

  • Installing the second Silo Emptying Plant machine in the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo and moving the first Silo Emptying Plant machine into position to start retrievals.

  • Opening a new intermediate level waste export route from our Pile Fuel Storage Pond to the Waste Encapsulation Plant.

  • Demolishing the First Generation Reprocessing Plant stack from 61 meters to its final height of 30 centimeters, removing a significant risk from the Sellafield site.

  • Continued work on construction delivery, including recent tower crane installation on Sellafield Retreatment Plant, concrete pours on SIXEP Contingency Plant and Sellafield Retreatment Plant.

That progress was made possible thanks to the efforts of our employees and supply chain partners.

We thank everyone involved in delivering our work, from those who have worked on the site throughout the pandemic to those who have embraced a new way of working, and the teams who have kept us all digitally connected.

This year we created a strong foundation for our organisation. We published our Enterprise Strategy 2020 and in doing so set out what we need to do at Sellafield and our priorities for the next three to five years.

We also worked with more than 400 employees from across our organisation to create our Manifesto, a simple one-page document that sets out the behaviours we expect of ourselves and each other.

Other highlights from the report include our continued investment in research and development (£79 million) and our communities through our Social Impact multiplied programme (£9.7 million).

In terms of our carbon footprint, our environmental teams have calculated that we have achieved a reduction of 51,467 tonnes of CO2e compared with the previous year.

We were proud to support our supply chain during a difficult year by implementing the Cabinet Office Procurement Policy Notes and making payments totalling £50 million. This ensured when we were ready to bring operations back online, our supply chain was ready to support us.

For more details on our progress, sustainability, safety and social impact in 2020/21, look out for our Annual Review of Performance later this summer.

Published 21 July 2021