Windscale

/ ˈwɪndˌskeɪl /

noun

1. the former name of Sellafield

Example Sentences

This undoubtedly made the Atomic Energy Authority more risk averse, but it also raises the question of whether a nuclear power station would have been built at Lough Neagh if Windscale had not happened.

From BBC

To the right is the "golf ball", a giant orb that housed an experimental gas-cooled reactor, and, slowly being dismantled, the last of the two concrete towers of the Windscale Piles where plutonium was first produced in the 1950s.

From BBC

Macmillan released his own interpretation of what happened at Windscale, when equipment problems and human error resulted in a raging reactor fire.

From New York Times

But Windscale’s operators were responding to government pressure to produce more plutonium and tritium; it was also the government that pushed to build Windscale quickly and cheaply.

From New York Times

When Britain’s chief nuclear scientist, John Cockcroft, insisted that Windscale add some radiation filters during its construction, other officials gave only grudging approval, calling the filters “Cockcroft’s folly.”

From New York Times