Windscale fire

Quand

10 oct. 1957

Type

Incendie

Coordonnées

54.42° N, 3.50° W

Description

major nuclear accident in the UK

1957 nuclear accident in England

The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, ranked in severity at level 5 out of 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The fire was in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale site on the north-west coast of England in Cumberland.

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