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Britain’s worst nuclear disaster: the Windscale fire of 1957

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When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out atthe Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK. By the time it was putout, radiation had been sent across Britain and Europe. Jonny Wilkes reveals what happened, and why we should be grateful that it wasn’t muchworse. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima: three names that have gonedown in infamy; bywords for the nightmare scenarios that can occur when theproduction of…
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Britain’s worst nuclear disaster: the Windscale fire of 1957

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out atthe Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK. By the time it was putout, radiation had been sent across Britain and Europe. Jonny Wilkes reveals what happened, and why we should be grateful that it wasn’t muchworse. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima: three names that have gonedown in infamy; bywords for the nightmare scenarios that can occur when theproduction of…

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