Sellafield bomb. Sellafield 2 will release the same amount of radioactivity into the environment as Chernobyl every 4.5 years. One of these radioactive substances, Krypton 85, will cause death and skin cancer." Déanta, a traditional Irish band from Northern Ireland, refers to Sellafield and its nuclear dangers in their song "Cold Grey Fairyland". Runrig A Scottish folk-rock group, mention Sellafield in their 1993 song 'Move a Mountain'. "Fallout", a 2006 drama shown on the Irish national TV station RTÉ, based on the false premise that parts of Ireland would need to be evacuated following a serious accident at Sellafield, following the
Wylfa Nuclear Power Station Wylfa Nuclear Power Station Wylfa Nuclear Power Station () is a former Magnox power station situated west of Cemaes Bay on the island of Anglesey, North Wales. Construction of the two 490 MW nuclear reactors, known as "Reactor 1" and "Reactor 2", began in 1963. They became operational in 1971. Wylfa was located on the coast because seawater was used as a coolant. In 2012 Reactor 2 was shut down. Three years later, Reactor 1 was switched off on 30 December 2015 so ending 44 years of operation at the site. Wylfa Newydd (literally New Wylfa) is a proposed new