{"id":224977,"date":"2023-12-05T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=224977"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:38:59","slug":"fire-at-uk-nuclear-site-was-like-chernobyl-as-its-hacked-by-russia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/fire-at-uk-nuclear-site-was-like-chernobyl-as-its-hacked-by-russia-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at UK nuclear site was ‘like Chernobyl’ as it’s hacked by Russia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fire at the UK's most hazardous nuclear site in the late 50s 'could have been as bad as Chernobyl', as news has broken that it has been hacked by cyber groups linked to Russia and China. <\/p>\n
Sellafield, a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England, had breaches of its IT systems as far back as 2015, the Guardian revealed yesterday (December 4). <\/p>\n
The groups appeared to use sleeper malware, malicious software that lies in wait on the device it has infected, timed to go off either on a specific date, or at the end of its countdown. This means that emergency planning documents used in the event that the UK comes under foreign attack or faces disaster could have been comprimised.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: UK's most hazardous nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China<\/b><\/p>\n
But this is not the first scandal to rock the site, formerly known as Windscale. In 1957, Britain's worst nuclear accident struck there. <\/p>\n
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Windscale No1 Pile caught fire in October that year, setting 11 tons of uranium ablaze for three days. The chaos nearly caused the reactor close to collapse and radioactive material spread across the Lake District.<\/p>\n
Accounts in Sellafield Stories, a book of interviews with nearly 100 people who worked there and people who lived in the area, revealed the true extent of the issues – and the alleged cover up. <\/p>\n
"You kept quiet. But you know you were scared stiff really. Those who were working there… didn't want to be seen against the thing," Mary Johnson, now in her 90s, who was born on the farm that was compulsorily purchased to become the site of Sellafield said. <\/p>\n
Deputy general manager Tom Tuohy is credited with the fact that the Lake District is still habitable today, as per the Guardian.<\/p>\n
"When all else had failed to stop the fire, Tuohy, a chemist, now dead, scaled the reactor building, took a full blast of the radiation and stared into the blaze below," the title reported in March 2012.<\/p>\n
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