"David Hansen" wrote in message
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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:43:22 GMT someone who may be "dennis@home"
wrote this:-

Windscale/Sellafield are/were not power stations.

It was the site of the first nuclear power station in the world,
which only closed recently. However, most of the electricity was
used in the rest of the works.

They are part of the nuclear weapons industry and a bit of contamination
was
deemed to be acceptable in order for us to have bombs.

Not quite, although they were not keen to mention the weapons part
of their work.

The original reactors did not provide any power.
In fact they were cooled by blowing air straight through the piles and up
the chimneys.
Any radioactive gas produced just vented through to the air.

The follies were added at the insistence of one man and were only effective
at catching large particles.
Just as well they were there when it caught fire even though they did have
to around picking up bits of core for years afterwards.

They built the power station much latter after they had made the weapons.