[ RadSafe ] World's first commercial nuclear plant demolished

[Sandy Perle]

World's first commercial nuclear plant demolished

LONDON (AFP) - Demolition experts blew up Saturday the giant cooling 
towers of the world's first commercial nuclear power station, 51 
years after it was opened in northwest England. 
 
The first two of the four 88-metre (288-foot) high cooling towers at 
Sellafield were demolished at 9 a.m. (0800 GMT), sending a cloud of 
dust over the Irish Sea before hundreds of onlookers.

Four minutes later the final pair of cooling towers crumbled to the 
ground in a series of controlled explosions.

The demolition of the towers is the first phase in the 
decommissioning of the 167,000 square metre site made up of 62 
buildings.

Inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II on October 17 1956, the plant 
started production in 1960 and stopped in March 2003.

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