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Sellafield, Cumberland

Sellafield

Sellafield is vast industrial complex on the coast of Cumberland devoted to nuclear power: specifically today to nuclear fuel reprocessing and decommissioning. It is close to the village of Seascale, but dwarfs the village many times over.

Founded on a wartime factory, fuel processing began here, then the world's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, opened in 1956 and other reactors and facilities were built over the following decades. (Read more)