Word: sellafield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They are too dangerous, potentially, to build near populated places, and they require a larger supply of water than was readily available in Britain. So Britain's reactors were air-cooled, with radia-torlike cooling fins around the uranium rods. There are two reactors, side by side, near Sellafield in Cumberland. Rows of great fans like outsized airplane propellers blow gales of filtered wind through holes around the uranium. After another filtering to catch radioactive dust, the hot air is discharged through two massive stacks 400 feet high...
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