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    The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, and one of the worst in the world, ranked in severity...
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    Sellafield (redirect from Windscale)
    Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022...
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  • The Windscale Piles were two air-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the Windscale nuclear site in Cumberland (now known as Sellafield site,...
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  • at the Windscale nuclear facility when a major fire erupted on 10 October 1957. He was the leading participant in efforts to put out the fire which was...
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  • syndrome, providing the bulk of the data about this condition.: 15–29  The Windscale fire resulted when uranium metal fuel ignited inside plutonium production...
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    annealing process contributed to the Windscale fire (but the graphite itself did not catch fire), while a graphite fire during the Chernobyl disaster contributed...
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    BBC documentary on the topic of the fire, Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster. Rainbow Code Windscale fire Mark 18 nuclear bomb Ivy King Arnold...
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    Lucens shows – but yet it resides in INES category 4, together with the Windscale fire of 1957, which has caused significant contamination outside of the facility...
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  • several accidents at early nuclear weapons facilities – such as the Windscale fire, the contamination of the Techa River by the nuclear waste from the...
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    Serious radiation incidents/accidents include the Kyshtym disaster, the Windscale fire, the radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica, the radiotherapy accident...
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