In a recently aired documentary, “Windscale: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster,” the BBC investigated the history of the first British nuclear power station and its role in the development of nuclear ...

Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

"By midday, the fire was finally out." While it was front-page news, the scale of the disaster was played down by officials. The government asked Sir William Penney, one of Britain's foremost ...

Over 60 years ago, Britain flirted with a nuclear catastrophe that could have resulted in a tragedy worse than Chernobyl. The Windscale Fire remains the UK’s worst ever nuclear accident - but its ...

Anti-nuclear campaigners are preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of the Windscale fire this week. The accident on what is now known as Sellafield was one of the worst in the history of the nuclear ...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the Windscale fire, the worst nuclear accident in British history, and it looks like regulators are gearing up to finish dismantling the site within the next ...

WITH reference to the letter from Adi Roche (October 11) concerning, among other things, the Windscale reactor fire in October 1957, I would like to respond as one of the authors of the recent study ...

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Fukushima. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. Places that will forever be remembered as the sites of nuclear disasters. Most people will have heard of them. But fewer are aware of the Windscale fire. It ...

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