Along the north-east coast of Ireland we live as close as 35 miles from the a nuclear power station with the worst record for pollution in western Europe it is the Sellafield, formerly Windscale nuclear plant.
In 1957 this Plant sent a plume of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, carried on a south-easterly wind this deadly cloud polluted all the area in its path.
There has been a number of accidents from that time, but thankfully not on the same scales as the 1957 disaster, the Irish and Norwegian governments have tried unsucessfully to have this antiquated pile closed down.