This is the Guardian. Today it's one of the UK's most important nuclear sites. So why does one

former UK minister call Sellafield a bottomless pit of hell, money, and despair. Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in

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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app. The first time I saw Sallifield was when I was driving south from Carlisle.

And you take a road towards the coast and you drive along these little pastures with cows and haystacks.

It was a sunny day and I remember the grass was emerald green and you could see the sea

sort of winking away in the distance.

And then suddenly you come to a gate, a security gate.

And it's as if it's the entrance to the rabbit hole in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland because you pass through the gate and you just come into an entire different world altogether.

Salafield is a nuclear facility on the Cumbrian coast. Facility makes it sound like it's just a couple of buildings, but that's way off.

Sellafield is six square kilometers.

It's more like its own small town.

It has roughly a thousand buildings, it has roads, it has its own rail siding on which cargo trains come in and

out and drop things off or pick things up.

Samantha Supermanian is a rider who visited the site last year for the up. fit to the other because you're constantly coming up against barriers for security and

protection.

And so you get into these cars and you drive around and sometimes you lose track of where

you are, especially if you're new to the site as I was.

Every day, the 11,000 people that comprise Sellerfield's workforce cross a barrier into what sometimes called a nuclear narnia,

a place with its own dedicated armed police, its own laundry service for washing

contaminated clothes, and even stray cats nicknamed atomic kittens.

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