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
Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station for a prototype fluidised bed combustion (FBC) coal station at Grimethorpe in Yorkshire. Because of this, the UK missed out on pioneering FBC technology, before it became internationally recognised as the best way of burning coal. Sited from Seaton Carew, and in the middle of the industrial complex of Teesside, the station was to be built closer to any major urban area than any nuclear power station site had been. To make this acceptable, the station's reactors were to be housed in prestressed concrete pressure vessels. The construction of the power station which was undertaken by Nuclear Design & Construction