Unveiling Windscale: Shedding Light on Britain’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster
Introduction In the annals of nuclear history, a name often overlooked is that of the Windscale fire, a catastrophic incident that unfolded in October 1957 at the Windscale nuclear reactors in Britain. This little-known disaster, which occurred in the early days of the nuclear age, holds the ignominious distinction of being the world’s first major…