Windscale

The nuclear fuel reprocessing facility at Sellafield, formerly called Windscale, has been the source of enormous releases of radioactivity to the environment since it became operational in the early 1950's.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

The answer being that most of it was being produced in reactors such as Windscale in Britain, specially designed to turn out plutonium for weapons article on 10 April 1977 headlined "TOO HOT TO HANDLE

Blogger News Network 2009

Wikipedia provides a slightly drier, but more complete recounting of the decision to use water to put out the reactor fire at the Windscale Pile 1, Oct 11 1957.

hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Taking Chances with Nuclear Reactions, Part 2 2008

Despite Windscale and Chernobyl, the chief argument against nuclear power has never been the safety one but its cost.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

The watchdog also has "concerns" about the management of change on the part of the site still known as Windscale.

HSE acts over lax safety standards at Sellafield nuclear plant Rob Edwards 2010

There have also been a number of accidents in experimental reactors and in one military plutonium-producing pile at Windscale, UK in 1957, but none of these resulted in loss of life outside the actual plant, or long-term environmental contamination.

Safety of nuclear power reactors 2009

Far more people and animals have been harmed and/or killed by fossil fuel emissions than nuclear waste, even when you include the big disasters like Three Mile Island, Windscale, and Chernobyl.

800-pound gorilla 2005

Far more people and animals have been harmed and/or killed by fossil fuel emissions than nuclear waste, even when you include the big disasters like Three Mile Island, Windscale, and Chernobyl.

800-pound gorilla 2005

It has always been national policy to build nuclear power stations in comparatively underpopulated areas like Dounreay, Windscale, erm Sellafield and Sizewell and on the coast, so asking this question is idiotic: there is never going to be a plant built on Hampstead Heath, or come to that, in Croydon.

Archive 2006-06-01 dizzy 2006

Our bugpbear in the UK which we can never livedown is the Windscale pile fire.

Warmest in a Millll-yun #2 « Climate Audit 2006