Sellafield

I think solar power, you know, the price of a solar panel is coming down.

Um, nuclear energy, I- uh, just to debunk a myth, I think people think of nuclear and think it's gonna be like the opening credits to The Simpsons or Sellafield.

A, a nuclear reactor to power the Isle of Man could fit inside this, this studio that we're here tonight.

Um, but I do...

According to our investigation, he's been all over northern England.

From Sellafield in Cumbria down to Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.

He's had days out in Chester and in York.

Over the years, Robert Thompson's trips have got longer and further afield, in line with standard policy on mobility.

And so for all the practitioners that are scaring people from taking iodine or supplemental iodine or Lugol's or the potassium iodide, I think you should reconsider because.

We are missing the big elephant in the room that were these individuals that were exposed to Project Sudan or the Windscale fire or the Chernobyl accident or the Fukushima event.

And then all these other incidences where radioactive iodine was released into our atmosphere and then made it into our food supply.

If anything, the Wolf-Tchaikov effect shares how radioactive iodine is so bad.

Take the best of what's there and tie into the community game there, which is strong.

A lot of people work in places like Sellafield or whatever it's called this week over the weekend and play their community rugby league, but... can't or don't get involved in the professional side of things.

So if they said, look, I think Neil Hudger said it in his interview on the bench, that London would be great to play on a Thursday night because then if they had a regular time slot, it didn't conflict with a lot of other sport that goes on in the capital.

And people knew that's when they were playing.

Well, I snuck off.

minutes before coming onto the stage here to get a sneak tour of this fantastic museum that we're sat in and one of the feathers from one of Napoleon's caps is in here so I think you could make a bit of a push for getting the Bayeux Tapestry to bury in return for Napoleon's feather in his cap And I guess one of the other things I'm thinking about is as a Cumbrian MP, I represent the constituency that is home to Sellafield, which was next month the world's first civil nuclear power plant.

And that actually matters a lot for the UK-French relationship because 70 years ago, the Queen then came to Calderhall and flicked a switch that powered the first genuinely clean power revolution with nuclear power that powered Workington.

And we lost a bit of our nuclear spirit with the deindustrialization of the UK in the 70s.

And France has shown the benefits of strong civil nuclear power.

And I think there's something about maybe on the 70th anniversary of Calderhall, and sharing a bit of that heritage.

You need to be careful which bricks you pick up and share, I think, from the Sellafield site.

But we've got some amazing heritage there.

They've got some contracts to do castings or fabrications for US naval submarines.

They've also got a contract to do boxes to contain radioactive material for the UK nuclear power stations, Sellafield.

They've got long-term storage facility on site there and they're putting their huge sort of metal sealed boxes where they can put the material in and then push it down to the end of a short and medium and long-term storage on site there.

They are producing hundreds of those and Goodwin, because of the size of their facility, they are about the only company in, I want to say Europe, but possibly definitely in the UK who can actually produce those castings.

So they are armed police who look after...

He started off at Sellafield, then he moved to Dungeness.

And so these are...

Yeah, they're protecting those really important places for us.