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"Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China"
Wherein the buried lede is that BBC Countryfile is a national security threat.
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When I chanced upon the Visitor Centre for Sellafield I got the lasting impression that the folk there did not take themselves or anything too seriously
In the gift shop, I was able to purchase a souvenir “glow in the dark “ luminous key ring.
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Windscale 1957
Cockcroft follies
Thorp leak 2005
Nuclear Decontamination and decommissioning is a bottomless money pit and permanent “jobs for the boys “ in an area where employment is scarce.
It costs about £4 billion a year
@hesgen Last week Alastair Campbell revealed that his political podcast cohost and former Cumbrian MP Rory Stewart had once helped set up and promote an organisation devoted to opposing wind farms in the Lake District because of the threat he thought they posed to tourism. I thought at the time that it was hugely ironic that having a vast nuclear tip was probably a bigger threat to the holiday industry and that it got far less attention.