Sellafield
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Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing a
2005 view of the site
The site in 1956. In foreground Calder Hall cooling towers and two Magnox reactors. Background L to R: First Generation reprocessing plant, Windscale pile chimneys.
Queen Elizabeth II officially opening Calder Hall nuclear power station on 17 October 1956
1985 view. L to R; The "Golf Ball" WAGR reactor, the Windscale Piles with their large exhaust stacks. The water vapour is from the Calder Hall cooling towers.
Cumbria shootings
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The Cumbria shootings were a spree shooting and mass shooting that occurred on 2 June 2010 when a lone gunman, taxi driver Derrick Bird, killed twelve people and injured eleven others across multiple
Sellafield
…Atomfall is set in an alternate history 1960s where the Windscale nuclear disasters turned much of the Lake District into a radioactive quarantine zone. Derrick Bird, perpetrator of the 2010 Cumbria shootings. Bird worked at Sellafield until 1990, when he was sacked for a theft that resulted in him receiving a…
The Eskdale valley, site of Bird's suicide