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
Torness Nuclear Power Station AGR station. The construction, which was undertaken by a consortium known as National Nuclear Corporation ('NNC'), began in 1980. The reactors were supplied by NNC and the turbines by GEC. Torness was the last of the United Kingdom's second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned (25 May 1988). The station consists of two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGR) capable of producing a peak rating of 1364 MWe. Upon deregulation of the United Kingdom's electricity generation market it passed to the state-owned Scottish Nuclear, privatised as part of British Energy which was sold to the French company EDF in January 2009,