Information for Bulk Processing Unit, Clean Energy Technology Park, near the Sprinfields nuclear fuel production installation, Station Road, Salwick, Preston
Status: PotentialPlanning Region: North West
Planning Sub-Region: Lancashire
Operator: Perma-Fix / Westinghouse
Capacity: c. 1,000 tpa of low and intermediate-level radioactive material
Campaign Group(s): Radiation Free Lakeland
Notes: Announced in March 2022 as a "refractory lined oven" called a "Bulk Processing Unit (BPU)" intended to treat "a wide range of low and intermediate-level radioactive material" [Source]. In April 2022 the Environment Agency stated: "The Environment Agency has been approached by Westinghouse UK and Springfields Fuels Limited to discuss the potential for a Perma-Fix waste treatment facility to be constructed and operated at the Springfields site. We have provided advice and guidance on the permitting requirements for such a facility, and the information that would need to be submitted to us in order to proceed with a permit determination. At this early stage, we have not had sight of detailed design proposals for the facility and we have not been given an indication of when a permit application could be submitted." [Source]. No sign of a planning or permit application as of August 2024. (Entry updated 2024-08-22)
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