The last batch of waste has gone through its Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp), which opened in 1994.
It has generated an estimated £9bn by extracting new nuclear fuel from 9,000 tonnes of used rods from 30 customers in countries as far afield as Japan.
Thorp will operate until the 2070s as a storehouse for spent fuel as the site around it in Cumbria is cleaned up.
Sellafield Ltd said there would be no redundancies as a result of the closure, with all employees in roles no longer required offered alternative jobs in the business.
The decision to wind it down was taken in 2012, as a result of the majority of its customers opting to store rather than reprocess their fuel…….https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-46206495
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