Sellafield

Sellafield is a place in Cumbria, England that is most famous for containing one of the most controversial nuclear power plants. In 1957, there was a fire at the Windscale reactor there, an incident considered similar in magnitude to Three Mile Island. The installation was later renamed to simply Sellafield.

More recently, there have been allegations of leaks from the plants and the trains used to carry nuclear material. It is also suggested that the flasks used on the trains did not undergo sufficient testing. Video footage is used to support their saftey - they are shown being dropped and hit by a train. Campaigners argue the trains pass over viaducts with greater heights than tested, and that a train is somewhat deformable, giving a lesser impact than a concrete wall of a tunnel would.

External Links

• British Nuclear Fuels Limited (http://www.bnfl.com)