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>>11408503
Sellafield(aka Windscale) is actually a pretty shit in terms of nuclear.
>>spooky cooling tower
in the lower right of the picture is one of the downright spookiest cooling towers in the world. That's an exhaust chimney for an AIR COOLED NUCLEAR REACTOR. And guess the fuck what? At this very same plant they had one of these AIR COOLED REACTORS CATCH FIRE!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
Also in the lower right we can see a blue pool, because guess what the Brits also had the bright idea of storing spent fuel outdoors in fucking ponds! And not just any fuel, but fuel with cladding that corrodes in water! They just dumped it the fuck in and delayed clean up for years. To this day, they're still trying to clean up a mixture of corroded fuel, gull droppings, and algae. The pond developed it's own goddamn ecosystem and we discovered radiation resistant algae in it:
https://mbio.asm.org/content/9/3/e02395-17