Nah, proper chemicals place at Billington, though ISTR there was a research bit at Wilton.
From what I recall there was (amongst other things) cyanide running through the outdoor pipes all over the site. If you saw anything which might indicate a leak you hit the alarm. If you were outdoors and inside the plant perimeter and the alarm went off you had to strip off completely and get under one of the cold water shower which were, among other places, on the bottom of the pipes running round the site. The cold water apparently closes your pores and lessens the risk (of death, I suppose).
There was an H&S film describing how to behave, and there was a bloke from the plant who couldn't wait for his 5 minutes of fame by stripping off and doing the shower bit -probably a bit of an exhibitionist really!
There was an annual shutdown for some weeks when a specialist team from Texas came over a d cleaned the pipes.
They had quite an ongoing problem with theft of some of the live high voltage (= very thick) copper cabling
But to be fair, they had a great safety record with no significant incidents for over a year, as far as I recall.
Last edited by: smokie on Wed 5 Oct 22 at 16:18
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