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I was living and playing music in Scotland .. they used to have the workers take a shower to 'clean it off' .. would imagine a number of them died .. en route ..

Well it appears that thier is good jobs for the English people. Wind and solar run on natural gas to make up for the clouds and lack of wind. So maybe that's why it's so much cheaper. 🤔

Theyre trying to, but they got alot of house keeping to do first.

Wear a mask!! There are Hot Particles of everything in that region from the open air pools A Geiger counter is no good nor a dosemeter for these places.. you need spectroscopy and Neutron Detectors. Please be careful Thank You btw for being aware. I unfortunately cannot remember how to understand my favourite language as a child, Deutsch(e?) ..cheesy danke 🥴

You can visibly see the damage that all the Neutrons have done to the buildings.. the walls everywhere are being degraded rapidly by the looks of things

It pumps it into the sea directly and admit to 500kg of Plutonium into the ocean just off shore.. Having to use briken language b'cause zencors It is major source of most illness

@1:58 bullshit!! you can wear that type of passive dosimeter anywhere you like as long as it is visible. You would not tuck it underneath another layer of clothing. As a visitor Simon (and all members of his film crew) would have been issued with an active dosimeter which would give a live measurement of his exposure! As for how he talked about the risks from the different "zones" give me strength!. The different zones are all about the level of training and protection someone has to minimise their exposure. Simon has no training so his guides have to take maximum care of him. With the right level of training and protection those working in the most radioactive areas of a site could actually be exposed to less radiation than those working in areas with the least radioactive exposure.

There are used fuel rods in an open air pool????? Are you guys in GB serious???? Let me quote Einstein: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” We are not doiing everything proper in Germany, but something like that what be completely unbelievable!!! And besides all the shit I've seen inbetween, at 11:00 it is shown, that you put radioactive material to concrete blocks without any steel containment???!!!???!! Did any concrete blocks hit your head??????? Ever heard about cracks??? What the FUCK is wrong with you??????

Some right old junk has been dumped there, like in the ponds. Like a lot of TV, I would prefer it without the music.

We all went on a school trip north to Sellafield from our hometown of Barrow in 1989 iirc,after the Tour of the site ended, we all got a badge with "I've been to Sellafield" wrote on it.....Some clever wit among my friends wrote "and survived" in black biro on the bottom of the badge....so we all did the same to our own,lols....that caused much mirth among us and much rage amongst our teachers on the Coach?another notable memory of the trip is the tour guide calling the Chimneys "Chimleys"....That to caused a huge uproar of uncontrollable laughter as you could well imagine!🙉😉Great late 1980s days of yore!😁👌....btw thanks for the Memories/Flashbacks mate!🇬🇧☢️🤩😉😎👍

The comment about not knowing the effects of radiation when Winscale was built is just not true. The first nuclear pile CP1 was built in Chicago in 1942, and there was an accident durig construction that killed someone due to a fatal dose of radiation, and of course there were the 2 bombs dropped on Japan at the end of WW2. The after effects of those bombs on the human victims were heavily researched and documented in great detail. So the dangers of radiation were very well known, although DNA hadn't been discovered then so there was no awareness of this being the real insidious factor of radiation on the human body. Also, looking at nuclear material handling in Winscale, which was incorporated in the design of the plant, indicated they were fully aware of the danger of radiation. So the subsequent negligence in the operation of the plant is deplorable verging on criminal.

While we can see the issues with Sellafield and the decommissioning. Earlier the waste was stored it was dumped into the North Sea. It was placed in lead lined drums and covered in concrete. There was an old 1970 interview with a politician explaining the containers and the dumping process. An interviewer asked the immortal question.... how long do the containers last? The politician said 25 years. The obvious next question was... then what??? That question wasn’t answered. So next time you are at a local beach on that coast, now you know why the water quality chart shows radioactivity readings. Also why my family left Barrow and now live in New Zealand. Still miss the Lake District though.

I cant stop thinking about putting reactors on big ships and mooring them around the coast to provide power. We can use the proven reactor technology from submarines, they could be kept away from population centers. Modular and flexible, AND could be funded through central government with no planning kerfuffle no NIMBYism or prolonged construction difficulties. MASSIVE opportunity, could build and lease these offshore power stations to other countries. Could easily move the spent fuel around to an appropriate decommissioning point. This would be a big capital investment... but could be a big decatbonising positive and potentially a revenue stream.

Is he diferent or is his heart realy on the wrong side? It must be the Film crew everthing is back to frond he was driving on the wrong side of the road, the notices were back to front, or is that the way they do things in the NORTH? worring to say the least.

At every nuclear plant around the world they just store the radioactive waste, hoping for a solution to come by in the future. Every year they make millions tons of water radioactive. No one dare even atemting to calculate the cost of dealing with all that waste for hundred tousands of years. Every nuclear plant leak radioactive tritium giving children living near by cancer. But people are so ignorant that they can make them believe that nuclear power is clean energy😂😂😂😂😂 actually it's very sad😢

Reporters like this shouldnt go to places they dont understand .

Love the “shut Sellafield” tag line on this video, like you could just close the gate and walk away in a weekend! Sellafield will still be there in some form or another in a hundred years time at least.

Never should've moved away from coal.

Communist

I'll bet that any assistance from the Gov is dwindling

It would be nice if the cleanup and redevelopment could include some gen 4 reactors such as fast spectrum waste burners which can use spent fuel to produce more than 40 times more energy

Just be thankful the British government didn't detonate atomic bombs and contaminat the British isles like they did to South Australia...my backyard. 🇦🇺

A graveyard dedicated to the follly of man. And we still say it's preferrable to renewables and still produce more radio active waste that does not occur naturally in this world that will still be radioactive in 1000s of years. Madness personified. And ofcourse produced in order that we can have nuclear weapons.. Power generation is all a front to disguise that fact.

6:39 "So this is a future clean up?" Wee bit of a daft question there seeing as the entire site and every building on it and all of the contents in them are one big future clean up, as he even stated himself at the beginning of the video. The whole place is being decommissioned. Stick to writing books ya fud!

I have driven past this place numerous times ... first time it put a chill up my spine ... How Glad i am i didnt get a road construction job from the north side to the digging a foundation 20m plus deep .... those ventilation chimneys had almost unbeleaveable diamensions ... Cumberland is such a Beautiful Region but this Legacy certainly tarnishes that ... But we just have to Clean up the Mess we made .... its not a nice mess foresure . However theres Places in the world that are worse off because of similar or worse accidents in the Field of Neuclear Physics ...

How is possible that Nobody forecast the failure Of the nuclear program…. Il be never clean Despite billions

5:01 The statement is untrue, camera crews have been inside that building (B30), like here back in 1989 when B30 was still operational: czcams.com/video/A6mpz7FcCTU/video.htmlfeature=shared&t=2206

‘Some think that nuclear is the solution to climate change, even though wind and solar are a fraction of the price.’ 1. Fraction of the price, smaller fraction of the energy efficiency. 2. The elements required for solar energy are rarer and more harmfully extracted from the earth in expressions of the effect on labour forces and the environments they’re extracted from. 3. The carbon emitted in making photovoltaics, tidal and wind generators is hardly an improvement. The scale by which you would need to extract elements for making photovoltaics and wind turbines to compete with nuclear energy would be a disaster for the campaign to promote solar and wind as carbon ‘neutral’ energy sources. People need to just accept that all of our energy demands involve scary and unpleasant factors. If we could store nuclear waste underground in areas where we already have armed security (think of the military bases up and down the country), and use the accumulated knowledge for improved nuclear waste handling and disposal then we have removed the lingering ghost of nuclear power. Anybody arguing that Chernobyl could happen needs to chill and check reality. As long as we keep nuclear facilities secure and employ informed and reliable people to run them we could cut the cost of powering a nation of millions by factors that we couldn’t comprehend. The reason we couldn’t comprehend how much cheaper it could be is because the energy industry is run by manipulative tyrants who have maintained greater empires than the East India Company.

Worked there a few times cooling ponds leak like sivs DEADLY !!!!

When talking about power generation you didn’t mention the need for base load only relative cost- all a bit too sensationalist

This is anti nuclear propagandist fool says, "The most hazardous site in Western Europe." She says, "it is safely stored." The level of stupidity of this propaganda. Coupled with the "the sky is falling" "climate crisis," which used to be known as "climate change, greenhouse effect, global warming." They haven't got one thing wrong. Just like putting solar panels up in the UK. All nuclear is hazardous, however new technologies make things like this propaganda, unnecessary.

in the day they made that mess, they, I think, believed they were not leaving behind waste, but treasure. It had been shown through the weapons programs that reproducessing nuclear waste to recover plutonium and uranium was just as 'easy' as making the reactors in the first place. Other experiments had shown that spent "primary cycle" fuels could be reused in fast breeder reactors. A lot of the west, not just hte UK put a lot of money into the belief the future would not only have a purpose for that waste, but that it would be an asset worth money. Even the THORP project was still part of that. However, the public opinion departing from supporting nuclear power pretty much eroded the budgets which would have led to that future. The future where what Sellafield held was of significant value and primary and fast breeder cycles ran, waste was reprocessed to extract all useful metals and gases before the remaining (5% or so) or ... mostly short lived fission products, can be dumped. The irony, in a very unfunny way, is that the continued lack of budget into nuclear is leading to life cycle extensions for some really old plants. Plants that in a supportive public scenario would have been replaced with cheaper, safer reactors. Instead we extend the life of reactors built in the same era that brought us Sellafield.

This has so many cliché out of context, bs sensationalist statements in the first 45 seconds I'm not sure it's worth watching.

To say that the site is related to Nuclear Power is a bit misleading. This is mostly a site for manufacturing nuclear material for weapon use. Power was more like an added benefit but it wasn’t the main purpose for this site.

When you have that much money you can change history & the name of a place associated with greed & problems. Short cuts will always happen. Greed is human nature and history had proven what happens next

Why is the video laterally inverted?

The reporter seems to have no prior knowledge and averything is a sensation. The fact is that due to lack of planning, cost-cutting and poor management the current situation has been developing for decades. Only recently has effective care been taken to clean-up this awful mess. Those working at Sellefield these days are heroes. Not becauseof radiation, because the risks are mitigated, but the skill, innovation and excellence devoted to the clean-up. But there are no secrets any more. And yes, cameras have been into that building many times.

Nuclear insanity

I can see why even the BBC took this video down. It's garbage beginning to end.

Some good recession proof jobs there

So basically it’s a nuclear bomb waiting to explode or war set it off. If the water isn’t kept cool I’m guessing it will boil dry and blow up, thousands of times worse than Chernobyl! What a complete joke the way this is so poorly maintained. Where is the help from other countries to help pay for the cleanup?? If this goes wrong or a plane or war causes electricity blackout, water to dry out In the water pools…you can wave goodbye to living the UK for nearly 200,000 years maybe more!

I don't know if I can be bothered to watch this film, well seeing he's not an engineer or technical man, errors already at 00:37 and someone should have told him that as a reporter, writer or journalist to be more correct with your choice of words, fire DID NOT sweep thro Windscale, more accurately a specific single reactor pile overheated which led to a runaway thermal increase which by a 'last chance saloon' idea of wetting/ cooling the surrounding pile and working inwards (my description and I've never seen it better put) ... by luck and bloody dangerous hard work they managed to decrease temperature toward safety again. The meanwhile ensuing air ventilation was an admitted calamity (and a fundamental basic design flaw) ... thank God for the Cockcroft filters at the top of the stack and Tom Tuohy and no doubt others that did the necessary. Heroes one and all! No doubt I'll add to this as I get past 00:37

That is one seriously hardened ROV.

I'm not going to blame the pioneers who worked on this stuff of course they made mistakes ...public opinion went against "nuclear" including against nuclear energy and with that went funding to deal with problems and here are some of the consequences of those cuts. " wind and solar are a fraction of the price " people keep saying this A) the price of something that isn't there when you need is irrelevant ( if the wind isn't blowing), there is no energy storage scalable to cope with wind or solar or tidal dominated generation. ( give it 30 year maybe... is that good enough) B) Nuclear energy costs reduce with scale like nothing else and we need it on a massive scale so the costs will fall dramatically if we manage things competently. We've got to start reprocessing and fast reactor programmes again so waste like this is reprocessed and "burnt" in fast reactors which generate 10 -30( I think??) times as much energy from the "waste" than the thermal reactor did making it leaving behind much less material that's safe in circa 300 years decay. Do your research the information is out there. Existing nuclear energy technology is the only base load clean ( very low carbon) source we can scale to provide for our needs. Also other nuclear fission energy technologies ( fast reactors , molten salt, variety of SMR) have more potential than any other generation technologies. It's literally the most powerfull technology known to man for good or evil and if you mismanage it things can go wrong, that happens with powerful technology but to suggest we don't use our most powerful technology to tackle our biggest ever challenge is wrong IMO.

This video is quite misleading, as with many discussions about Sellafield, it falsely depicts the troubled site as a product of Nuclear Energy generation. Rather, the site started out as Windscale, where it was used exclusively for the production of nuclear material for nuclear weapons. The site was then morphed into the Magnox program, reactors that were designed primarily to produce large amounts of irradiated fuel that would have the plutonium recovered at Sellafield. It is wrong to say that Sellafield, in all its horrors, is a product of Nuclear Energy, like some campaign groups are doing. Modern nuclear energy produces very minimal waste and what it does produce can be recycled without the mess you see at Sellafield. Nuclear Energy WILL be needed to achieve affordable and clean electricity, wind & solar fail to do any heavy lifting.

Only £100bn!? The government just cost us that in one week with 'trickle down' economics.

NOPE not any longer

I thought reprocessing was still happening at Sellafield?

No it does not leave a carbon footprint but it does leave a waste that will still be here for our future generations to have to deal with, nuclear energy is not the way forward, we need to get that out of our heads, there is no use in producing and using something that leaves such a toxic waste, the scientists in the 50,s and the government were only interested in building atomic bombs, what a great legacy they have left behind and not even bothering to get rid of the waste , no it,s fine we will just leave it here on site, thank you you were so thoughtful.

From my view, it shows a previously cash strapped site, with multiple problems but also a site that is dealing with the problem, day by day and achieving real results. The warehouse at the end with the cut up nuclear reactor parts is the way forward. We need nuclear if we are to go down the "net zero" route.