Arriving at Sellafield today to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Windscale Fire, CORE campaigners (and media) were somewhat dumbfounded by the mysterious re-emergence of the memorial plaque whose loss had recently been confirmed in a letter from Sellafield Ltd.
With any explanation of the plaque’s reappearance still hard to come by, its return – albeit lacking some TLC and not in its original position against the site’s perimeter fence – is widely welcomed and allowed today’s ceremony to go ahead as in previous years. Whilst there is now no need to take up Sellafield’s offer of a replacement, CORE will seek the company’s co-operation in fashioning a more secure fixing for the plaque in a permanent position out of harms way.