Sellafield accident there are evacuation riots, societal collapse and widespread health impacts. Sellafield was the subject of Marilynne Robinson's 1989 book, "Mother Country", a critique of British nuclear policy. Sellafield is the central theme of Les Barker's comic poem 'Jason and the Arguments,' and is also mentioned in other Barker works. The Irish attitude to Sellafield forms a key plot strand in "Body Breaker", a crime thriller by Mike Craven Norman Nicholson's poem "Windscale", which refers to the 1957 accident, is a commentary on the poison that Nicholson believed nuclear power had introduced to an area of natural beauty. Sellafield Sellafield
Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Station Vermont Yankee, a nuclear power station located in nearby Vernon, Vermont. First power plant in this area was W.T. Turner's Hydro-electric production service to the town of Charlemont. Yankee atomic is the distant second as far as local heritage and historical significance. Yankee Nuclear Power Station (YNPS) was the third commercial nuclear power plant built in the United States and the first built in New England. According to several sources Yankee Rowe was the first commercial pressurized water reactor operating in the United States. This view discounts the government-sponsored Shippingport Atomic Power Station, which was not built on a commercial