When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) is a tool for communicating the safety significance of nuclear and radiological events to the public. Member States use INES on a ...

A video game from UK-developer, Rebellion, has been inspired by one of the world’s worst nuclear incidents. Windscale in Cumbria is the UK’s biggest nuclear accident, when a reactor caught fire and ...

The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure ... this structure is because they know the scale of the threat radiologically inside,” said ...