The Director of Information for the Celtic League, Bernard Moffatt, says the 50th anniversary of the Windscale disaster should be the right moment to call for the plant to be shut.
In October 1957, a huge cloud of radiation was released when reactor number one caught fire, some 40 miles from the Isle of Man.
Workers at the site managed to avert a major nuclear catastrophe but Mr Moffatt (pictured) says Sellafield, as it’s now known, is still a clear danger to the Island.
He says the anniversary should prompt the government to do more to call for its closure:
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