It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.

Windscale: Britain's biggest nuclear disaster was broadcast on Monday, 8 October, 2007, at 2100 BST on BBC Two. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a two-part drama about Windscale on Monday and Tuesday, 8 and 9 ...

It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster, but it is likely you have never heard of it. Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine , or Fukishima in Japan , Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination.

Casualties from the Windscale nuclear disaster. At the time, there was special concern about the radioactive element Iodine-131. Since then, it has been discovered that there was also a minor but ...

Windscale nuclear reactor (UK): A fire in the graphite-cooled reactor, in Cumbria, results in a limited release of radioactivity (INES Level 5). ... It is considered the United States' worst nuclear ...

On October 10, 1957, a hidden disaster unfolded at the Windscale nuclear facility in the coastal town of Cumbria, Northwest England. Initially undetected, a fire erupted in one of the two reactors ...

The Windscale piles, built on thecoast of Cumbria in north-western England, were built to produceplutonium for the weapons program at a time when nuclear materialsproduction was in its infancy. In ...

Until the April 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the Windscale fire was one of the worst nuclear accidents in history and remains the worst in Britain. Windscale was the world’s first full-scale atomic ...

The latest game from Rebellion — an Oxford studio best known for the Sniper Elite series — spins an alternative history around the 1957 Windscale fire, the worst nuclear event in British annals.