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,(all reactors now disused)
a defunct AGR reactor, two nuclear fuel reprocessing plants (Thorp and B205
Magnox) , Britain's main plutonium stockpile, a MOX
plant that has never been fully commissioned 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. The visitor centre initally cost £5
million to build and £4 million
a year to advertise and run. This figre has since risen considerably.
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.