The lesson of sellafield is not so much that nuclear power is dangerous but that britain seems incapable of implementing any long term engineering plan that comes its way from high speed trains. The closure is a consequence of the fukushima incident in japan in march which has closed. The mox nuclear fuel plant at sellafield was closed on wednesday with the loss of around 600 jobs.
Sellafield nuclear plant fined 380k after worker exposed to cancerous radiation earlier that week on october 7 windscale workers were carrying out a procedure on the reactor s graphite core. The previous scheme at moorside was halted when japanese multinational toshiba. Plans for two nuclear power plants on the site of a previously abandoned project in cumbria have been submitted.
It also reprocesses spent fuel from nuclear power plants overseas. Now it needs to clean up. Sellafield is home to 80 of the uk s nuclear waste and some of the world s most hazardous buildings.
Sellafield is a large multi function nuclear site close to seascale on the coast of cumbria england as of 2019 activities at the site include nuclear fuel reprocessing nuclear waste storage and nuclear decommissioning and it is a former nuclear power generating site the site covers an area of two square miles and comprises more than 200 nuclear facilities and more than 1 000 buildings.
