Best of 2023: Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2023, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. From January: Nothing is produced at Sellafield any more. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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