The outfit that runs Britain’s Sellafield nuclear waste processing and decommissioning site has been fined £332,500 ($440,000) by the nation’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) for its shoddy cybersecurity practices between 2019 and 2023.
Sellafield, located in Cumbria, England, manages more radioactive waste than any other nuclear site in the world, and decommissioning work happening at the facilities involves high-hazard activities including waste retrieval, plutonium and uranium storage, and spent nuclear fuel management and remediation.
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Source: The Register
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