On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:43 +0100, Stimpy 
wrote:

>On 28/8/07 21:19, "Dave Liquorice"  wrote:
>
>> 
>> Windscale and Sellafield are the same place. They renamed Windscale
>> Sellafield after the leak via the chimney from the core that resulted in
>> the milk being poured away.
>
>Not *strictly* true.
>
>The entire site was originally ROF Sellafield.  When the nuclear facility
>was built, that portion of the site was renamed Windscale (1947)
>
>When the industrial & production part of UKAEA was split off into BNFL in
>1971, the commercial area of the site reverted back to Sellafield.
>
>As of today, the UKAEA site is Windscale and the former BNFL site is
>Sellafield.

and to completely confuse things the reason for the changing of the
name from Sellafield to Windscale in the first place was to avoid any
possibility of confusion with one of their other sites, Springfield
where the fuel rods were manufactured.


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"Paul Hyett"  wrote in message 
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> In uk.media.tv.misc on Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Mike wrote :
>>>
>>>As of today, the UKAEA site is Windscale and the former BNFL site is
>>>Sellafield.
>>
>>and to completely confuse things the reason for the changing of the
>>name from Sellafield to Windscale in the first place was to avoid any
>>possibility of confusion with one of their other sites, Springfield
>>where the fuel rods were manufactured.

Wasn't springfield where Homer worked??

Jeff

Jeff wrote:

> > > > As of today, the UKAEA site is Windscale and the former BNFL site is
> > > > Sellafield.
> > > 
> > > and to completely confuse things the reason for the changing of the
> > > name from Sellafield to Windscale in the first place was to avoid any
> > > possibility of confusion with one of their other sites, Springfield
> > > where the fuel rods were manufactured.
> 
> Wasn't springfield where Homer worked??


They live in Springfield and Homer works at the Nuclear power station.


Jim

"Paul Hyett"  wrote in message 
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> In uk.media.tv.misc on Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Mike wrote :
>>>
>>>As of today, the UKAEA site is Windscale and the former BNFL site is
>>>Sellafield.
>>
>>and to completely confuse things the reason for the changing of the
>>name from Sellafield to Windscale in the first place was to avoid any
>>possibility of confusion with one of their other sites, Springfield
>>where the fuel rods were manufactured.
>
> And the three-eyed fish live? :)
> -- 
> Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett

Sorry to be a pedantic **** but its Springfields, not Springfield. Preston 
was going to declare itself a Nuclear Free Zone in the 1980's until someone 
reminded them about the existence of this place, about 2 miles from the 
county bunker in Lea.

steveb

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:16:11 GMT, "steveb" 
wrote:

>Sorry to be a pedantic **** but its Springfields, not Springfield. Preston 
>was going to declare itself a Nuclear Free Zone in the 1980's until someone 
>reminded them about the existence of this place, about 2 miles from the 
>county bunker in Lea.

Yes it is, my mistake.  But as shown above it has much greater comic
impact without the trailing S :)



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Mike wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:16:11 GMT, "steveb" 
> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry to be a pedantic **** but its Springfields, not Springfield. Preston 
>> was going to declare itself a Nuclear Free Zone in the 1980's until someone 
>> reminded them about the existence of this place, about 2 miles from the 
>> county bunker in Lea.
> 
> Yes it is, my mistake.  But as shown above it has much greater comic
> impact without the trailing S :)
> 
> 
> 
What is comedy is the 80's thing about declaring places nuclear free 
zones . So they'll not be wanted any of that electricity then? plus if 
the bomb drops it'll respect the county boundaries too!

"Sofa - Spud"  wrote in message 
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> Mike wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:16:11 GMT, "steveb" 
>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to be a pedantic **** but its Springfields, not 
>>> Springfield. Preston was going to declare itself a 
>>> Nuclear Free Zone in the 1980's until someone reminded 
>>> them about the existence of this place, about 2 miles 
>>> from the county bunker in Lea.
>>
>> Yes it is, my mistake.  But as shown above it has much 
>> greater comic
>> impact without the trailing S :)
>>
>>
>>
> What is comedy is the 80's thing about declaring places 
> nuclear free zones . So they'll not be wanted any of that 
> electricity then? plus if the bomb drops it'll respect the 
> county boundaries too!

The only thing missing would be to solemnize the arrangement 
by drawing up an arms limitation treaty.

-- 
Vance P. Frickey

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they 
infect the soul with evil." -- Socrates

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