UK's CUMBRIA .. Fissile & Explosive Decay:

The then "largest munitions Factory in the world" - 'HM Factory Gretna' - was built in Cumbria during WWI.  It stretched twelve miles across the Scottish border including GRETNA and was rated as producing 880 tons of cordite per week - all hand mixed by mostly female staff who's hair turned orange (known as "canaries") .. and then they had their gums rot while their teeth fell-out. (Well, Canaries don't have teeth eh).

This WWI complex is still there (under various names) - the Government recently announced it's closure but they then retracted - saying that only the 'non-explosive' building areas were to close.

Typically - the Americans next had to beat the Brits by building their biggest munitions plant in the world - for WWII - in Wisconsin .. The Badger Army Ammunition Plant.

Three of the four 'GRETNA' sites with their bunkers, reservoir and railways are still there and used under various regularly changing military names (CAD Longtown, BAD Eastriggs, MOD Eastriggs .. Central Ammunition Depot or later - Base Ammunition Depot).

- Of course CUMBRIA used to be called Cumberland didn't it ... and that's where SELLAFIELD - that used to be called WINDSCALE - is located - together with the old Calder Hall (Seascale) and the Drigg coastal nuclear dumps.

.. that's right -  Sellafield is where there's all those crumbling concrete cooling tanks filled with who knows what radio-active nasties & sludge - AND that's near where the pommy Government stockpiles it's plutonium reserves - the largest stock of plutonium held by any country in the world  .. 118 tons of the stuff that they think might come in handy one day eh.

.. So that's a 1,000 kilos in a ton and it takes 5-10 kg to make a nuclear bomb .. yeah that's right .. enough to make more than 11,800 nuclear warheads.

This area is THE MOST DANGEROUS & TOXIC PLACE IN THE WORLD .. and experts are hoping that yet to be developed ROBOTS will help clean it up a bit over the next many hundreds of years.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sellafield-nuclear-robots-cleanup-waste

- And some inmates folk living down South at Porton Down near Stonehenge .. are nervous about nerve gas !

- It can't really be too bad in Cumbria - as the Civil Nuclear Constabulary describes it as a great place for families.

The Civil Nuclear Constabulary have built a 14 acre Firearms Training Facility at Sellafield .. to "help them maintain public safety". (- What? .. to protect the public from the Government??)

And there is a great big wind farm 12 miles off the coast there too -

Walney, Cumbria - On A Fine Day -  367.2MW

"And Walney is the newest, biggest and fastest-built jewel in that crown (Cumbria), providing clean power for hundreds of thousands of households."

“And did those feet in ancient time 

Walk upon England’s mountains green? 

And was the holy Lamb of God 

On England’s pleasant pastures seen?

William Blake

1,233 Radioactive Particles Recovered Since 2006.

- Fancy a bit of  surf fishing or a swim?

Marty K.