Sellafield’s head of information security to step down

Sellafield was placed in a form of special measures in 2022 over cybersecurity failings, according to sources. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

A former Royal Air Force officer who has led Sellafield’s information security for more than a decade is to leave the vast nuclear waste site in north-west England, it can be revealed.

Richard Meal, who is chief information security officer at the Cumbrian site, is to leave later this year.