Sellafield attack 'would dwarf Chernobyl' - report

New Scientist magazine has claimed that a terrorist attack on the Sellafield nuclear complex in northern England could potentially be 44 times worse than the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

The magazine said that if a hijacked jumbo jet crashed into the part of Sellafield where radioactive waste is stored, as much as half the waste would be ejected into the atmosphere.