Firefighters at the Sellafield nuclear site are to stage their first strike later this month in a dispute over pay.

Plutonium facilities at the Sellafield nuclear plant do not meet high standards, a watchdog has found.

The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, England, has been given the all-clear after an investigation into higher-than-normal radiation readings detected at a perimeter fence.

The Sellafield nuclear site is being operated at “reduced manning levels” following “the detection of elevated levels of radioactivity”.

It will take more than 100 years before the toxic nuclear site at Sellafield is safe, it was revealed today.