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
Heysham nuclear power station Heysham nuclear power station Heysham Power Station is a nuclear power station located in Heysham, Lancashire, England, operated by EDF Energy. The site is divided into two separately-managed stations, Heysham 1 and Heysham 2, both with two Reactors of the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type. On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Heysham was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations. On 1 August 2016, Heysham 2's Unit 8 broke the world record for longest continuous operation of a nuclear generator without a shutdown. This record-breaking run exceeds the previous record of