"I've been to Sellafield!"

[marnanel]

When I was about ten, my dad took us to the visitor centre at the Sellafield nuclear power station. The government were very keen to show it off, especially given how soon it was after the Chernobyl disaster, so there was a lot to see, and we were given cheerful badges saying "I've been to Sellafield!". (Unfortunately, they'd recently stopped allowing you to walk across the roof of the reactor hall.)

As we were walking around the site:

Little Marn: What do you think was here before the power station?
My dad: Probably all farmland.
Little Marn: And the government bought it all?
My dad: I should think it was a compulsory purchase.
Little Marn: So they made the farmers sell a field?
My dad: .....

I was like that as a kid.

Comments

[brainwane]

This is AWESOME.

[pseudomonas]

I'm kind of disappointed that you were always like that, as opposed to there being some fascinating "bitten by a radioactive dictionary" incident.

[andrewducker]

As a kid?