The Yimby town housing UK's most dangerous nuclear site - and it's keen for more

The Yimby town housing UK's most dangerous nuclear site - and it's keen for more

“If we didn’t think it was [safe], we wouldn’t be fighting to be at the heart of it,” says Mark Fryer, leader of Cumberland council. He is standing outside Sellafield, on the coast of Cumbria, the most hazardous nuclear site in the UK and one of the most dangerous in Europe.There are seven former nuclear reactors inside, as well as different types of nuclear waste and Britain’s entire stockpile of civilian-owned plutonium, around 140 tonnes of h…