Sellafield railway station Sellafield railway station Sellafield railway station serves the nuclear facility of Sellafield in Cumbria, England. It is operated by Northern which provide all passenger services. The station is a stop on the scenic Cumbrian Coast Line, south of . Some through trains to the Furness Line towards stop there. The station, which dates from 1850, is a busy freight location, because much of the nuclear waste for Sellafield's Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is carried there by train from the docks in Barrow-in-Furness, or from rail-connected nuclear power stations elsewhere in the UK. The facility also generates significant commuter traffic
Wylfa Nuclear Power Station nuclear station on a site adjacent to the old plant. An application to build two advanced boiling water reactors was submitted by Horizon Nuclear Power to the Office of Nuclear Regulation on 4 April 2017. Wylfa was the second nuclear power station to be built in Wales after Trawsfynydd in 1959. Following the closure of Trawsfynydd in 1991, Wylfa became Wales' only nuclear power station. Construction of Wylfa, which was undertaken by British Nuclear Design & Construction (BNDC), a consortium backed by English Electric, Babcock & Wilcox Ltd and Taylor Woodrow Construction, began in 1963. The reactors were supplied by