A radiation warning sign sits on a railing near the Pile Fuel Storage Pond at Sellafield atomic fuel reprocessing site in the UK. Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Bloomberg/Gettythat Sellafield has not gone away. The 700-acre complex is a nuclear dump for most radioactive material from all over the UK. It continues to pose risk to Ireland, Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.
Given the novelty of the technology, and the unanticipated coolness from the US authorities, Windscale became a major centre for experimentation and innovation. Among the numerous innovations was the cooling of the early reactors using atmospheric air rather than pumped water, which substantially reduced costs.Martin Wolf: The tree of debt must stop growing
In 2017, the Irish Centre for High End Computing ran simulations using historical meteorological data coupled with more recent analytical techniques,. Despite reassurances to the contrary at the time, there appears reasonable evidence that Ireland was affected, although not as heavily as Wales, Scotland, southeast England and Scandinavia.
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