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 On 28 June 2011 both reactors were manually shut down due to reduced flow of sea water at intakes by a large mass of jellyfish. Torness Nuclear Power Station Torness nuclear power station was the last of the United Kingdom's second generation nuclear power plants to be commissioned. Construction of this facility began in 1980 for the then South of Scotland Electricity Board (SSEB) and it was commissioned in 1988. Torness nuclear power station is located approximately east of Edinburgh at Torness Point near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland. It is a local landmark, highly visible from the main A1