The Silo Maintenance Facility will maintain the equipment used to retrieve radioactive waste from 2 of the Sellafield site’s legacy nuclear waste storage facilities, the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo and the Pile Fuel Cladding Silo.

It will also maintain the flasks that will transport the waste from silos to modern storage facilities that are being constructed on the site.

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