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Tom Lowe introduces the archive material, writing in Building:
‘… Calder Hall in Northumbria was the world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station when it was opened by The Queen in 1956. Now part of Sellafield in Cumbria, the plant was deemed ‘ugly’ by The Builder…..’
… Building‘s archive article, written 2 months before the UK’s worst nuclear accident at Windscale, looks at siting – questioning the ‘need for remoteness in the interests of safety’ and design – commenting on Calder Hall as ‘an ugly complex of exposed pipes…’
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