Sellafield Nuclear Reprocessing Plant - December 2023

On Tuesday 5th December 2023, the British Newspaper, The Guardian, in an exclusive revealed the first results of its year-long investigation into the radioactive contamination, cyber hacking and the toxic workplace culture at the nuclear storage plant of Sellafield.

The Sellafield facility on the Cumbrian coast covers an area of 6 sq km (2 sq miles) and is the biggest store of plutonium in the world.

The Guardian's article claimed that Sellafield's IT systems had been hacked. It was alleged in the article that the hackers were linked to the Russian and Chinese governments.