General view looking across a field with cows towards the Windscale Nuclear Plant, Ponsonby

Date:
1977
Location:
Windscale, St. Bridget Beckermet, Copeland, Cumbria
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Sellafield Nuclear Processing Site, St. Bridget Beckermet, Copeland, Cumbria
Reference:
OP04654
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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The print is from a file entitled 'Chemical Factories' in the archive collection of the Central Office of Information. Windscale Nuclear Plant, now known as Sellafield, began to produce material for nuclear weapons after the Second World War. The print shows a view of the advanced gas cooled reactor at Windscale, and was taken amid an attempt by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd - the site operators - to gain Government approval for a plan to reprocess nuclear waste.

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This is part of the Collection: COI01 Central Office of Information

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Photographer: Francis, Peter

Keywords

20th Century Nuclear Power Station