Sellafield: ’Everything was contaminated: milk, chickens, the golf course’ (The Observer)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident
I t says something for how Britain’s nuclear establishment worked from the start that when Windscale No1 Pile caught fire in October 1957, it was hushed up so well that even with 11 tons of uranium ablaze for three days, the reactor close to collapse and radioactive material spreading across the Lake District, the people who worked there were expected to keep quiet and carry on making plutonium for the bomb. (...) Source: The Observer
