#sellafield

[robthepensioner]

A guide to the view from the promenade at Fleetwood. Lancaster University is labelled, but some people insist that those buildings are the Sellafield nuclear site.

[blackrider70]

Sellafield, we should not forget about those

„Events“

[man-and-atom]

On Tuesday, 17 July 1984, at the British Rail test track at Old Dalby, Leicestershire, a flask of the type used for transporting spent MAGNOX fuel from power stations across Britain to the reprocessing plant at Sellafield was deliberately rammed by a Diesel locomotive (46009) and three passenger coaches, at a speed of 160 km/h. The locomotive was utterly demolished. The coaches were wrecked. And the flask? It needed a new coat of paint.

The intent was to placate critics of nuclear energy, who professed not to be satisfied by operational experience and engineering studies showing that the transport of spent nuclear fuel was safe. As Dr Sir Walter Marshall (later Lord Marshall of Goring) said, “If you’re not convinced by this, you’re not going to be convinced by anything!”

Whether or not it accomplished this, it was a spectacular demonstration of the high safety standards of the civil nuclear energy industry — and made for some absolutely spectacular video.

[northern-punk-lad]

Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public — The Guardian

Safety concerns at Europe’s most hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with US, Norway and Ireland

“Why don’t you surport nuclear” maybe because a storage site for the waste puts multiple countries at risk if anything goes wrong with it

[jammiedoggo]

UK radioactive mutant wildlife

Description: (This is fictional, not real) Wildlife inhabitant the outside radioactive comtaminated area of facility has mutated into monsterous beast with national distinctive feature, the teeths. An offical statement from goverment warned everyone to be cautious and leave the these beast alone while profesional handle them when in circumstance. Their wild habitat must be left alone due to how dangerous both radioactive comtaminant and the beasts. A research has been started to study and understand them while the plant is still in decomissioned and demoshing.

Short summary Windscale/Sellafield history: 10th october in county Cumbria, England, UK. A fire broke out west coast at windscale nuclear reactor facility and Plutoium production plant, that was UK most serious and worst nuclear disaster. when a routine heating of the No. 1 reactor’s graphite control blocks got out of control, causing ajacent uranium cartridges to rupture. The uranium thus released began to oxidize, releasing radioactivity and causing a fire that burned for 16 hours before it was put out. The fire left about 10 tons of radioactive fuel melted in the reactor core. The Windscale fire also caused the release of sizable amounts of radioactive Iodine into the atmosphere. As a consequence, the government banned for several weeks the sale of milk produced in a 500-square-km (200-square-mile) area around the reactor site. At the time, the British government released only sketchy details of the accident and in general tried to minimize its seriousness. The contaminated Windscale reactor was subsequently sealed until the late 1980s, when a cleanup of it was begun (cleanup expected to be completed in 2015).

Source: Here below

Short summary (That i cheated by copy and paste): https://www.britannica.com/event/Windscale-fire

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

Journel: It is originally going to be joke art based on the Bri ish meme of jagged teeth combined with Windscale/sellafield radioactive comtamination from fire disaster in 1957, then cyberpunk idea comes up and i loved it. So it's part Bri ish joke combined with cool cyberpunk.

Everyone knows about the infamous nuclear disaster chernobyl and fukushima but not for windscale/sellafield and i'm bringing it to the spot light here. I first learn't about is from youtuber fasinating horror who does short docmentary of disaster incident for educational.

The inspiration of the other artstyle beside from cyberpunk is credit to the artist Tomb of null: https://x.com/tombofnull. I adore the artstyle and artworks, check out this artist artwork if you want.

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[ceevee5]

Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China

Exclusive: Malware may still be present and potential effects have been covered up by staff, investigation reveals

“The site has the largest store of plutonium on the planet and is a sprawling rubbish dump for nuclear waste from weapons programmes and decades of atomic power generation.”

[isomorphismes]

While producing plutonium to be reprocessed for weapons, the heat from the [Windscale] plant's chain reaction was used to make steam and generate electricity. Although nuclear power advocates would rather not discuss the fact, dual-purpose reactors conclusively demonstrate that plutonium reprocessing facilities are all that separate plants producing nuclear power from those making nuclear-weapons material.

Len Ackland. 1989

[jamessebright]

Sellafield. Dumfries and Galloway, England. #sellafield #Cumbria #lakedistrict #nuclear #nuclearpowerplant #English #englishlandscape #englishlandscapes #documentary #documentaryphotographer #religion #englishlife #leica #leicaworld #leicacamera #leicax2 (at Sellafield, Dumfries And Galloway, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwnQKlCALuk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t5b6mthdvldy