1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - The nuclear reprocessing site, nearby Seascale. "Safe" according to the authorities-"dangerous" according to the residents in the area
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Peace protester Catherina Barne
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Rail wagons carrying steel containers of spent nuclear fuel
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Peace protester Catherina Barnes, camping and protesting at the entrance of the factory
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Inside the nuclair plant
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Schoolchildren visiting the Sellafield visitors centre
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Staff member with control rod, used in nuclear reactors to control the rate of fission of uranium and plutonium
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Schoolchildren and their catholic teacher visiting the Sellafield visitors centre
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Worried fisherman. He and his colleagues are convinced the silt in the harbour is nuclear contaminated
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Peace protester Catherina Barnes at home
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Shop window, port Whitehaven
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Fishermen and residents are convinced the silt in the harbour is nuclear contaminated
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Seascale, village nearby the nuclear plant. Workers plant are measuring the amount of radioactivity on the beach
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Golf resort Seascale, on the background Sellafield plant
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Workington, Lin Mar gives her son Ronnie a daily injection. Ronnie has leukaemia. His father worked on the Sellafield terrain
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Students St. Bees School making fun on sports field
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Barrow Infurness, unemployed John [r] at home with his daughter, wife and friends
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Barrow Infurness, unemployed John [L] with friends, they worked in this port which, among other things, used for transshipment of nuclear waste destined for Sellafield
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Lake District nature reserve
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Eskdale show, traditional farmers show with wrestling and sheep dog racing
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Eskdale show, traditional farmers show with wrestling and sheep dog racing
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Eskdale show, traditional farmers show with wrestling and sheep dog racing
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Train driver and conductor of thelittle train of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Tourists in a little train of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - The Owl Centre, Munchaster Castle alias Gateway to Paradise
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Measurement of radioactivity by the Ministry of agricultur
1994- SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR - Farmer Morris Steele, sheap-dipping 200 sheep, protection against insects

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In Britain they call us the glowworms. We are just friendly people with a big problem.” R. Muir, Whitehaven, Engeland

SELLAFIELD- Het aantal kankergevallen is groter dan normaal in de buurt van de opwerkings fabriek voor nucleair afval Sellafield, Cumbria, Engeland. De fabriek loosde radioactief afval in de Ierse Zee terwijl de stranden zomers drukbezocht werden. De onrust nam toe na de publicatie van het Gardner rapport, deze toonde het verband aan tussen leukemie bij kinderen en hun vaders die blootgesteld worden aan straling in de fabriek. In de regio is men verdeeld. Ernstige gevolgen voor de volksgezondheid door de straling wegen niet voor iedereen op tegen de werkgelegenheid bij Sellafield, de enige nog grote werkgever in natuur reservaat Lake District. Waar de producten van boeren en vissers europees ‘besmet’ zijn, vogelsoorten bedreigd worden en de toeristische industrie ingestort is.

SELLAFIELD- the number of cancer cases is larger than normal near the Sellafield reprocessing plant for nuclear waste, Cumbria, England. The factory dumped radioactive waste into the Irish Sea while the beaches were busy in the summer. After the publication of the Gardner report, wich showed the link between childhood leukemia and their fathers exposed to radiation at the plant. The region is divided. Serious consequences to public health by the radiation do not outweigh for everyone the employment at Sellafield, the only large employer in Lake District nature reserve. Where the products of farmers and fishermen are ‘infected’, bird species under threat and the tourist industry collapsed.

Photography: Marcus Peters – MP&a production 1994, not published.

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