10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WINDSCALE»
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Windscale in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Windscale and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer 1547 Deaths from leukaemia—
between 1974 and 1979, downwind of the Windscale fire. Bars show the
precentage of the expected rate of deaths; boxed figures show actual deaths
observed An ...
2
Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident
In 1957, one of the two reactors built at Windscale was destroyed by fire, in the world's first major nuclear accident. This book describes the fire and what followed, and considers its causes, effects and political importance.
3
International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics
Since its creation as a Ministry of Supply project in 1947 Windscale and Calder
Works has been central to the British State's civil and military nuclear aspirations.
As ultimate owner and ulator of the site, the UK has been drawn intense political
...
John Barry, E. Gene Frankland, 2014
4
The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
Exactly how many children contracted leukaemia because of radiation from the
Windscale accident will never be known. The radioactive isotopes released
during the Windscale fire included polonium, a highly radioactive substance used
in ...
Dr Frank Barnaby, Dr Douglas Holdstock, 2004
5
Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons ...
Windscale/Sellafield In 1939, a Royal Ordnance Factory to produce munitions
was established on the coast of West ... In 1947, the Ministry of Supply acquired
the facility, which it renamed Windscale, for constructing a reprocessing plant ...
Arjun Makhijani, Howard Hu, Katherine Yih, 2000
The day the reactor caught fire The fire at Windscale, just 25 years ago, caused
no lasting disaster beyond the loss of a few hundred gallons of milk. But it
certainly put the wind up all concerned — including one Atomic Energy Authority
press ...
7
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2009
Especially reinforced by the higher than fallout ratios observed at 500 m and
1000 m, we are confident that the high ratio at 1500 m is real and requires
Windscale origin as the explanation. Further evidence that this water has recently
had a ...
8
Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the ...
Although the milk ban around Windscale made controversy about air
contamination unavoidable, a much quieter dispute brewed up behind closed
doors about what to do with the radioactive waste. Putting out the fire gave rise to
an enormous ...
Jacob Darwin Hamblin, 2008
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Environmental Impact of Power Generation
This task is an expensive, on-going waste disposal problem.49'50 Windscale, UK
, 1957. The Windscale accident happened on the 10 October 1957 at what is now
the Sellafield nuclear site, Cumbria, UK. It is described in detail in several ...
Windscale candour THE accident at the Windscale plutonium factory which
resulted in radioactive iodine being released in small quantities over part of the
Lake District caused much alarm. It could easily have resulted in opposition to the
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WINDSCALE»
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Windscale is used in the context of the following news items.
Mini subs retrieve Sellafield isotope gear
There are also a small number of cobalt isotopes that were discharged from the Windscale Pile reactors when they were shut down and defeulled after the ... «World Nuclear News, Apr 15»
Accident at Windscale that spread polonium pollution far and wide
In the early days of the UK nuclear weapons programme our nuclear boffins had a terrible accident at Sellafield (then called Windscale) when trying to produce ... «Financial Times, Feb 15»
Cockcrofts witness final removal of Windscale galleries
As the final removal of the iconic filters at the top of the remaining Windscale chimney draws to a close, the son and grandson of John Cockroft, at whose ... «World Nuclear News, Dec 14»
Windscale Piles: Cockcroft's Follies avoided nuclear disaster
The towers of Windscale Piles have been a landmark for decades but soon the last of these Cold War relics will be gone. Cumbria's skyline will change with the ... «BBC News, Nov 14»
Sellafield's oldest nuclear storage pond to be decommissioned
The Pile Fuel Storage Pond, built in 1948, was originally used to store fuel from the Windscale Pile Reactors. Now, the radioactive sludge will be moved from the ... «BBC News, Jun 14»
Windscale chimney decommissioning: transforming the Sellafield …
The 110-metre-high chimneys at Windscale have been a major part of the Sellafield skyline for over 60 years. But with decommissioning work progressing on ... «Nuclear Engineering, Apr 14»
Creative Project Combines Time-Lapse and Stop-Motion to Capture …
His newest project, called WindScale, is a combination of time-lapse and stop-motion that he and a friend created on their way from Montréal to Burning Man in ... «PetaPixel, Feb 14»
NI state papers: Files Reveal Secret Dumping of Radioactive Waste
They also show that the issue of radioactive discharges, from the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, generated concern among Northern Ireland Office (NIO) ... «BBC News, Dec 13»
Demolition of Windscale chimney starts
Work to demolish the 110-metre tall chimney of the first Windscale plutonium-producing pile - which suffered a fire in its graphite core in 1957 - has begun at the ... «World Nuclear News, Sep 13»
March 1963: The Windscale AGR
In March 1963, The Engineer was marking the commissioning of a notable part of Britain's pioneering role in the history of nuclear power: the Windscale ... «The Engineer, Mar 13»
