Book description
Sellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in
the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office &
Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL.
Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked
and built the complex SELLAFIELDS STORIES tells the true story of the
Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nation's
story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World
War II to develop Britain's nuclear weapons, it was not until 1957
that it was given over to nuclear power, kick starting a revolution in
post war energy. Since then it has been the site of protests,
controversy and debate. Today it is still the country's biggest single
industrial site employing 13,500 people.
