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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.

Beyond that temperature, meltdown will commence, and everything basically becomes fuel for the reaction.'' It’s difficult to comprehend what the consequences of a Chernobyl-scale nuclear ...

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

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