In 1957, the world's first nuclear power accident occurred at Windscale in west Cumbria. 在1957年,全世界首次核电站事故在坎布里亚郡西部的温士盖(Windscale)发生了。
Britain's only existing waste facility, at Drigg in Cumbria, has been holding low-level nuclear waste since 1959. 现在英国仅存的废料设施——在cumbria德里格士镇的废料设施,从1959年就一直持有低级的核废料。