RTE Drama 'Fallout' doesn't look so bogus after all

Fallout an RTÉ two-part fictional drama, made in the style of a documentary. It deals with the Nuclear fallout following a hypothetical disaster in the Sellafield Nuclear Power and Reprocessing Plant in Cumbria on the British coast of the Irish Sea. The show suggests how Ireland would bear the brunt of the United Kingdom's accident. Given the following article in the The Guardian today maybe it's not so fictitious after all?!?

Documents reveal hidden fears over Britain's nuclear plants

Unexplained cracks in reactor cores increase likelihood of accident, say government inspectors. Government nuclear inspectors have raised serious questions over the safety of Britain's ageing atomic power stations, some of which have developed major cracks in their reactor cores, documents reveal today.

The safety assessments, obtained under Freedom of Information legislation, show the Nuclear Safety Directorate (NSD) has issued warnings over the deterioration of reactor cores at Hinkley Point B in Somerset and other British nuclear plants. The directorate also criticises British Energy, which operates 13 advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactors including Hinkley.

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