Sellafield Stories: Life In Britain's First Nuclear Plant
By (Author) Hunter Davies
Little, Brown Book Group
Constable
8th March 2012
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Oral history
621.4830942784
Paperback
368
Width 200mm, Height 124mm, Spine 26mm
80g
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.Hunter Davies (ed.) is one of the most respected journalist, writer and Cumbrian living. He was the first, official biographer of The Beatles and has written on everything from football to The Lake District. He lives in both London and Cumbria.