The nuclear power station at Berkeley in Gloucestershire closed at the end of March.
But its massive structure will still be there in the 22nd century, for a way has not been worked out of dismantling nuclear power plants when they come to the end of their generating life.
What will future generations make of the problem?
Ian Breach meets some of the present generation who watched as the largest gravestone ever set down in modern rural Britain took shape.
Plus at 12.55pm the weather for the countryside with BILL GILES. Producers
IAN BREACH . SUE LLOYD
Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill
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