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Tue 04 Apr 2003Nuclear power plant closes at Sellafield
The world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall, a Magnox reactor at Sellafield, on the coast of Cumbria, in the UK closed down yesterday.
The closure which was immediately welcomed by the Green Party environment spokesman Mr Ciarán Cuffe TD who said it was "hopefully the beginning of the end of the Sellafield complex".
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