Windscale: The Story of Britain's Chernobyl
Added 2021-04-27 10:16:00 +0000 UTCOne fact which I couldn't quite fit into this video, but which absolutely astonished me: Sellafield, until 2008, had a Visitors' Centre. The attraction consisted mainly of a museum with interactive exhibits, which was a favourite day out for schools and families in the local area.
At the Centre, you could challenge Albert Einstein in an interactive quiz, or learn about the recycling of spent nuclear fuel from a mascot known as "the Mighty Atom" who rode around above the heads of guests on a nuclear transoport flask. This article on the blog of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority offers a few glimpses of what the Visitors' Centre was like
One purpose of the museum was to put a friendlier face on nuclear power - something which Sellafield LTD continues to work on to this day. You can now follow them on Twitter, where they post about the employee choir, local business infrastructure, and the efforts of their employees to raise money for charity.
