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Sellafield
Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nuclear power generation from 1956 to 2003, and nuclear fuel reprocessing from 1952 to 2022.
Mayak
The Mayak Production Association (, , from 'lighthouse') is a nuclear facility near Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with production reactors and a reprocessing plant. Its reprocessing capacity, at 400 tonnes of heavy metal per year, is the second-largest in the world, following the La Hague site in France. It is currently used for military and civilian radioisotope production, and was historically central to the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center
North Korean nuclear site
Research centre CEA Cadarache
thumb|right|250px|Location of Cadarache (marked in red) in Southern France
Marcoule Nuclear Site
nuclear site in the Chusclan and Codolet communes, France
Tōkaimura criticality accident
nuclear accident
Madras Atomic Power Station
nuclear power plant
Dounreay
Dounreay (; ) is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland. It is on the A836 road west of Thurso.
Idaho National Laboratory
United States Department of Energy complex located in the high desert of eastern Idaho
Orano La Hague site
nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague, France
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
nuclear reprocessing plant in Japan
Savannah River Site
nuclear energy facility in South Carolina, United States
Pollution of Lake Karachay
radioactive contamination of Lake Karachay
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
India's premier nuclear research centre