Forum censorship - Secondary school or Sunday school?

[Richard Owen]

I read a good book about WINDSCALE (its real name maggie!).

It's original name was Calder Hall.

Not quite sure you are right there Richard.

Calder Hall is the site of the first UK commercial reactor (shut down a couple of years ago) this site is directly adjacent to the Winscale plant where there was a nuclear pile for generating wepons grade plutonium (Still being decommissioned from the 50's)

Hm. Thought I'd better go and check. Here's what Wikipedia (so it must be right?) says:

The Sellafield site was originally occupied by ROF Sellafield, a Second World War Royal Ordnance Factory, which, with its sister factory, ROF Drigg, at Drigg, produced TNT. After the war, the Ministry of Supply adapted the site to produce materials for nuclear weapons, principally plutonium, and construction of the nuclear facilities commenced in 1947. The site was renamed Windscale to avoid confusion with the Springfields uranium processing factory near Preston. The two air-cooled, graphite-moderated Windscale reactors constituted the first British weapons grade plutonium-239 production facility, built for the British nuclear weapons programme of the late 1940s and the 1950s. Windscale was also the site of the prototype British Advanced gas-cooled reactor.

With the creation of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in 1954, ownership of Windscale Works passed to the Authority. The first of four Magnox reactors became operational in 1956 at Calder Hall, adjacent to Windscale, and the site became Windscale and Calder Works. Following the breakup of the UKAEA into a research division (UKAEA) and a production division, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) in 1971, the major part of the site was transferred to BNFL. In 1981 BNFL's Windscale and Calder Works was renamed Sellafield as part of a major reorganisation of the site. The remainder of the site remained in the hands of the UKAEA and is still called Windscale.

No mention of the fires or leaks or PR disasters or anything. But it does note all the names and the order in which they are used. Not sure this helps anything though ............

[Paulh_Boats]

It was common knowledge in 1981 that Margaret Thatcher renamed Windscale and built a shiny new visitor centre on advise from Satchi & Satchi marketing consultants.

Some will remember Lenny Henry's comedy sketch at the time:

 ‘Windscale is to be renamed Sellafield because it sounds nicer. In future radiation will be referred to as magic moonbeams.'

-Paul

[Amy]

Anything a government says or does is primarily spin, any spin OFF is secondary to them but primary to us.

[O MidKnight]

must bump my posts up...

schools? I had to take needle work classes with the girls instead of woodwork through bad behaviour while at secondary P.  Had several canings and slapped faces from teachers and one classroom fight with one large russian music teacher. Eventually go expelled...

[Eleanor]

O Midnight, I do hope you have moderated your behaviour since then! 
Listening to Radio 2 at lunchtime. Victoria Wood has just said c**d**  along with lots of other words  . As for Alan Carr, well  . Our neighbour has just put the ram in with the ewes on the croft next door  . Earplugs and blindfold for me today I think. I do so love the view from the moral high ground, don't you? 

[Amy]

Eleanor, im as pure as the mountain snow in your wonderful pix, so i have no idea what to replace the * with.

How I wold love to live where you are right now

[Eleanor]

Amy, we have lived in worse places  . Guess we'll stop pinching ourselves one day 

Mike, I forgot to mention our neighbour's Willy. Reminds me of the Brian Johnston incident "The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey". 

[northern installer]

Eleanor,on here,I darent tell what our bull is called 

[Eleanor]

NI, you're talking bullocks again 

[Richard Owen]

We had a Dexter cow and calf once.

Called them Midnight and Runner.

It was inevitable.

[Eleanor]

All we need now is rock & roll. Bob Dylan is on the radio, I suppose that counts 
Some sort of normality seems to be restored 

[Amy]

Define normal.

once had two bacon pigs called Kwiksave and Tesco.  Horse called Mr Pennylark, Molly lambs called Alonso and Tarragon, cats called Stevens, Rastus and a Choc point Siamese called Fry , jack Russels called Floyd and Deputy and a turkey chick called Gibblet.

Hasten to add, not all at the same time.

[Eleanor]

We had 2 cats called Frank & Earnest 

[SteveH]

Define normal.

 Normal: What most people say when they mean Average...