newsandstar.co.uk reports
Cumbria narrowly averted a nuclear disaster “five times worse than Chernobyl�, a county councillor has claimed.
Labour’s Wendy Kolbe, who represents Ulverston East, told councillors that a failure in the cooling system at Sellafield on April 1 could have led to a catastrophic explosion.
Her comments have been dismissed as alarmist and untrue.
She said: “For four hours radioactive storage tanks lost cooling water.
“If that had continued for eight hours it would have created a major disaster not only for Cumbria but for Europe.
“We could have been looking at devastation to our county. Something five times worse than Chernobyl.�