Contemporary era · 1957
Windscale fire
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 (now Sellafield) on the north-west coast of England in Cumberland.
- When
- 10 Oct 1957
- Where
- Windscale Piles
- Era
- Contemporary
Topics
Before and after
Text from the Wikipedia article Windscale fire, CC BY-SA 4.0