Sellafield’s £2.8bn fund­ing for the next finan­cial year is deemed insuf­fi­cient, caus­ing plans for bud­get cuts. This rais­es con­cerns over safe­ty and job secu­ri­ty at the nuclear site, which hous­es the world’s largest store of plu­to­ni­um. Despite pri­or­i­tiz­ing safe­ty and secu­ri­ty, some projects may be slowed down, paused, or stopped, impact­ing parts of the sup­ply chain. The pub­lic spend­ing watch­dog pre­dicts the total cleanup cost to rise to £136bn. The GMB union calls for trans­paren­cy and work­er pro­tec­tion. Addi­tion­al­ly, Sel­l­afield has recent­ly been tak­en out of spe­cial mea­sures for phys­i­cal secu­ri­ty, although con­cerns about cyber­se­cu­ri­ty remain. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/sellafield-nuclear-site-cuts-funding-union-spending