The BBC meets four of the 11,000 people keeping the complex Sellafield nuclear site going.
The Sellafield site is constantly changing with old buildings being demolished and new ones built
In between are hundreds of buildings, anonymous, windowless warehouses, enormous ponds of vivid blue water containing submerged nuclear waste, brick office blocks and temporary cabins used for the never-ending construction of high-security storage facilities. Protection is further layered, with access to certain buildings only authorised to those with the highest level of clearance.
For a man with an awesome responsibility - "if we sneeze here the whole industry gets a cold" - Mark is very cheery.Macy Barker has been a firefighter at Sellafield for four years The 22-year-old from Silloth, Cumbria, has worked at the site for four years having completed an apprenticeship with the Sellafield brigade.Firefighting is in her family and although she never planned to join up, she realised one day how happy her relatives were in their jobs.
The Sellafield crews work closely with Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service and do leave the site to assist their colleagues, while always maintaining a core of personnel at base.Macy won't be drawn on the particulars of any incidents she has responded to, but says simply: "Every day is different."At first glance Russell Newlove's office looks like any doctor's surgery, there is the usual paraphernalia, a desk, an examination bed, a privacy curtain and drawings by his children.
Nurses are on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while doctors are on call overnight for "radiological emergencies".While the spherical reactor building and part of one the two tall towers can still be seen at Sellafield, the second tower and two cooling towers pictured here have long since been demolished
"Coming from the NHS, a lot of things that happen here are quite eye-opening, not the sort of thing you normally see."Born and raised 12 miles up the coast in Whitehaven, Charlotte Chan had always known of the large nuclear facility on her doorstep.
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