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The state-owned operator of the UK’s largest nuclear waste site has pleaded guilty to charges brought by the industry regulator over IT security breaches.
Lawyers acting for Sellafield told Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Thursday that they accepted cyber security was “not sufficiently adhered to for a period”.
Sellafield pleaded guilty to three offences under the Nuclear Industries Security Regulations 2003 in a prosecution brought by the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
The move marks the first prosecution brought by the ONR under the regulations.
Sellafield Ltd, which is owned by the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, is in charge of cleaning up and looking after the Sellafield nuclear waste facility in Cumbria, north-west England.
Sentencing will take place on August 8.
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