River Calder, Cumberland
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The Sellafield facility with Calder running through the centre
The River Calder is a river in western Cumberland.
The river rises at Lankrigg Moss and flows southwards through an ancient landscape, flowing under Monks Bridge and by the site of Calder Abbey, as well as several tumuli and other inexplicable monuments of anient time.
In contrast, however, the river runs straight through utter modernity; the site of the Sellafield nuclear power station, and gives its name to Calder Hall, which was the site of the world's first commercial nuclear reactor.
The Calder flows into the Irish Sea at the same point as the River Ehen, just southwest of Sellafield.
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