Sellafield: nuclear regulation
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How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Regulating through environmental permits
- Reviewing Sellafield Ltd's environmental permits
- Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) facility leak
- Monitoring radiation from Sellafield
- Contact Nuclear Regulation Group (north)
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Sellafield: nuclear regulation’ (updated 10 January 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026