Sellafield. According to a Guardian report, one facility on the site – the Magnox swarf storage silo – is leaking radioactive liquid at a rate of 2.3 to 2.5 m3 per day and will most likely continue to do so until 2050. Photograph: PA This week the Guardian has been running a series of exposés about safety at Sellafield, the nuclear waste reprocessing plant on the west coast of Cumbria, some 130km from Co Down as the crow flies – or as the wind sometimes blows. The reports – if they are accurate – don’t paint a pretty picture of...