Sellafield St Bridget Beckermet between the rivers Calder and Ehen. It consisted of High Sellafield (to the north, and which still exists) and Low Sellafield, which became incorporated in the Sellafield Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) during its construction in the Second World War. The coming of the railway to west Cumberland in the mid-19th century, and the opening of Sellafield station and Sellafield junction (for the branch line to Beckermet and Egremont, Cumbria), provided important transport links for a remote part of England. ROF Sellafield was constructed by John Laing & Son in 1942 at Low Sellafield as a Second World
Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station urban area. Originally planned in 1967, with construction starting in 1969, the station started generating electricity in 1983, and was completed in 1985, initially being operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. With privatisation of the UK's electric supply industry in 1990, the station has been owned by Nuclear Electric and British Energy, but is now owned and operated by EDF Energy. On 18 October 2010 the British government announced that Hartlepool was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. With the economic success of another advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) nuclear power station at