Talk:Sellafield

MOX plant closed?

Is it closed now? --178.203.145.148 (talk) 21:33, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes, relevant text clarified Dougsim (talk)

Central Laboratory – National Nuclear Laboratory headquarters

Much of this section sounds rather like a commercial advertisement for services. Consider reducing this aspect and putting emphasis on why the facility is here, its current relevance to the site and how it grew out of the expertise of the site - for instance. Dougsim (talk)

Windscale fire "the worst nuclear accident in the West"?

The Windscale fire has the same rating (5 out of 7) as the Three Mile Island disaster (in the US) and Chalk River accident (in Canada). The scale does not distinguish between events within the same rating, so within this scale all three incidents are considered to have the same severity. I cannot access the Telegraph source but the BBC article only says it was the worst British accident. Additionally, some definitions of "the West" include Japan.

This therefore appears to be hyperbole and so I'll remove it. FOARP (talk) 15:21, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

The Telegraph article can be read in full by clicking the archive link. However, although it states it was the worst accident in the west, it actually doesn't support that assertion with any facts. So, I think your action in removing the claim is correct. 10mmsocket (talk) 21:12, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

I also don't think we should be including the estimates of cancers caused without noting that no such increase was ever found in epidemiological studies (probably because of the filters and destruction of milk). FOARP (talk) 08:31, 31 July 2026 (UTC)