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Decommissioning the world's first commercial nuclear power station - Cleaning up our nuclear past: faster, safer and sooner
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New Scientist on Twitter: "Today marks the 65th anniversary of the first nuclear power generation anywhere in the world, at Calder Hall on the Sellafield site in Cumbria, UK. A thread on
RAF - Radioactive Friends. - NUCLEAR HISTORY: FIRST NUCLEAR POWER STATION On 17 October 1956, Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station, began generating electricity. Switched on by Queen Elizabeth II,
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