The Alternative Sellafield Tour
In this green and pleasant Cumbrian landscape where
Wasdale and Eskdale meet the sea there has grown up a vast nuclear
complex-Sellafield.
It employs over 7,000 people and was deliberately sited beyond
the western Lakeland mountains because there was thought to be
a slight chance it might be dangerous.
The vast site embraces: Britain's first two plutonium producing
reactors, the world's first four commercial nuclear reactors,
a defunct AGR reactor, two nuclear fuel reprocessing plants,
Britain's main plutonium stockpile and acres of high and intermediate
level nuclear waste stores.
It also has a new Visitor Centre that gives a pleasant upbeat
view of how British Nuclear Fuels sees the world. Chris Harding,
BNFL Chairman said the £9 million spend on the Visitor
Centre was "money well spent." It cost £5 million
to build and £4 million
a year to advertise and run.
It is this Visitor Centre which prompts us to offer our own Alternative
Tour of Sellafield. On your tour you can visit.........
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To find out more about Sellafield, the following web sites
may be helpful.