Britain's worst nuclear accident unfolded in Cumbria 69 years ago today
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Two days after the Windscale nuclear reactor in northwest England caught fire, farmers in the area began throwing away their milk. The cows were fine and the milk looked perfectly normal. However, it contained radioactive iodine, which is why the authorities banned its sale. The worst nuclear accident in British history thus directly affected people's dinner tables.
Windscale nuclear disaster at Sellafield 69 years ago today
10th October, By Ewan Wishart, https://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/26623785.windscale-nuclear-disaster-sellafield-69-years-ago-today/ TODAY, 69 years ago, a fire broke out on the Cumbrian coast which would become the worst nuclear accident in British history. On October 10, 1957, workers at Windscale, the site now known as Sellafield, discovered that Pile No. 1, one of two reactors built as part of Britain’s […]
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