Windscale
Britishnoun
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Windscale was eventually renamed Sellafield and produced nuclear power until 2003.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025
One Windscale manager who had battled the fire directly lived until the age of 90, insisting until the end that being irradiated didn’t have any impact on him at all.
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
Following the inquiry he declined a staff job with the FT, but wrote a meaty Penguin Special, Windscale Fallout: A Primer for the Age of Nuclear Controversy.
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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