About us
International Nuclear Services manages the contracts and logistics for nuclear fuel recycling products and services for UK and overseas customers. We are 100% owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Our main focus as the customer interface to over 20 utility customers for reprocessing and MOX fuel supply contracts, and the associated transport of these products is to endeavour to meet customers needs to exacting standards of quality and safety.
We have in-depth experience with quality and safety being at the heart of everything we do. In over 40 years of transporting nuclear cargoes, not once has there been a single release of radioactivity.
Our team dedicated to the successful management of these contracts consists of 140 professionals based at offices and facilities in the UK, France, Germany and Japan.
International Nuclear Services, formerly the spent fuel services business of Sellafield, was created to reflect the value and commitment we place on our utility customers in addition to promoting the value of our expertise, technology and resources to utilities and government agencies.
Products and Services
We work in partnership with the Sellafield Ltd plant operation teams to ensure we deliver what the customer wants.
Our portfolio of products and services include:
- The reprocessing of used oxide fuel in the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) to reclaim reusable uranium and plutonium
- The manufacture of Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) from the plutonium reclaimed from Thorp
- The safe treatment and storage of the different categories of waste arising from reprocessing operations via a range of waste management facilities
- Worldwide transport of nuclear materials through our logistics subsidiary company Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd (PNTL), which includes a dedicated fleet of ships, marine terminals at Barrow-in-Furness and Dunkirk and a range of transport casks for shipping used nuclear fuel, new MOX fuel and high-level wastes from Sellafield back to the customer’s country of origin
- Cask maintenance in a bespoke facility on the Sellafield site
