Windscale
Britishnoun
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But fewer are aware of the Windscale fire.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
When Britain’s chief nuclear scientist, John Cockcroft, insisted that Windscale add some radiation filters during its construction, other officials gave only grudging approval, calling the filters “Cockcroft’s folly.”
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
Ian Breach covered the 1977 Windscale inquiry hearings and afterwards wrote a book called Windscale Fallout: A Primer for the Age of Nuclear Controversy Some Guardian journalists stay for life; others move on.
From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2013
Sellafield, once known as Windscale, was in 1957 the site of the United Kingdom's worst nuclear accident, when a reactor's graphite core caught fire.
From Nature • Apr. 13, 2011
Like the Chernobyl facility, the Windscale Pile No. 1 plutonium-production plant north of Liverpool, England, used graphite to slow down neutrons emitted during nuclear fission.
From Time Magazine Archive
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