Sellafield said it had solved the "challenging puzzle" of how to take waste from a building designed never to be emptied A vacuum cleaner was among radioactive waste retrieved from a nuclear store ...

Thanks to the luxuries of central heating, running water, sanitation and electricity it is difficult to imagine just how uncomfortable life was for city dwellers in the early 19th century. Yet one key ...

A 1960s vacuum hoover is among deadly radioactive waste which is being recovered from one of the world's oldest nuclear sites. The domestic Electrolux cleaner was used to suck up dust at the ...

A vacuum cleaner was among radioactive waste retrieved from a nuclear store which was never intended to be reopened. Sellafield's Pile Fuel Cladding Silo has been a locked vault since waste stopped ...