From the "Feedback" column near the back cover of the 12 December
New Scientist magazine:

Bradwell nuclear power station, on Britain's Essex coast, has been
generating electricity since 1962, and is licensed to operate until
2002. The station's operator, the government owned Magnox Electric,
is hoping for an extension to 2012. Feedback was passing by
recently, and dropped in to take a tour.

It was impressive. Magnox Electric is most anxious to reassure us
that what happened at Chernobyl could not possibly happen in
Britain. Maybe so, but Feedback could not help noticing a few
cracks in the PR veneer.

First, the coffee machine at the visitors' centre delivered the
wrong drink. "It keeps doing that," admitted the harassed
receptionist. Then the tour guide was feeling tired because the
lift that carries people up to the top of the vast reactor hall had
been out of action all day. So everyone had to climb seven floors
of stone stairs past the "Burst Can Detector Room".

Every visitor is given a magnetic card that lets them through the
main security turnstile. When the card is swiped, a green light
goes on. But the bulb was a dud, so the visitors had to listen for a
telltale click.

Visitors are allowed inside the main control room. Knowing what can
happen when a pc relies on Windows, Feedback was a little unnerved
to see one of Bradwell's control computers using Windows 3.1. But
we were assured that this pc plays only a minor part in the control
system.

Finally, everyone must leave the reactor hall through another
locked turnstile that checks for radiation. The guide, however,
could not get out. Her magnetic security card had somehow
self-erased. So while the tour waited on one side of the safety
barrier, the guards had to turn off the alarm system to let the
guide through to join them.

Nobody seemed very bothered, though.

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