Calder Hall -> Windscale -> Sellafield Calder Hall fire 1957: I was in the womb 100 miles downwind at that time and have reasons to be grateful for 'Cockroft's

Calder Hall -> Windscale -> Sellafield Calder Hall fire 1957: I was in the womb 100 miles downwind at that time and have reasons to be grateful for 'Cockroft's folly' [1] Windscale Enquiry 1978: I was 20 then and THORP was bitterly opposed by environmental organisations, the Manx government and quite a few engineers, the latter on the grounds that it would never be viable [2, 3] Nuclear power, especially with reactors that require heavily enriched fuel, in a small densely populated country, is always going to be problematic. [1] https://www.khl.com/news/final-cockcroft-folly-is-demolished/103263.article https://www.khl.com/news/final-cockcroft-folly-is-demolished... [2] http://www.worldcat.orgwww.worldcat.org/title/windscale-inquiry-report/oclc/004641156 http://www.worldcat.orgwww.worldcat.org/title/windscale-inqu... [3] https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/mar/22/windscale-inquiry-report https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1978/mar/...