2019 Ullapool Disaster

The 2019 Ullapool Disaster occurred on the 28th December 2019 in Ullapool, West Scotland. It occurred when the main reactor in the power station radically overheated and blew up, causing enormous damage to the surrounding area and rendering over 5,000 blocks uninhabitable due to radiation leakage. This prompted the Scottish government to ban all nuclear power in the country on 29/12/2019. The reactor used, Nuclear Reactor v1.1, was developed in Bayonne and was used in Aberdeen and Ullapool prior to the explosion. The area had to be cleaned out by the Scottish Government, and was deemed habitable on the 28th February 2020, after there were no major traces of radiation in the area. The territory of the exclusion zone is now being controlled by the Republic of Siberia

Hesitantly, due to the limitations of renewable solar energy, Scotland has lifted the nuclear power ban as of 14/03/2020, and plans to implement two new reactors, one of which will be the new v1.4 reactor, once testing of the new version is complete, and an old v1.2 reactor, to help solve the energy issues in the country.