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Windscale 1957

Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Lorna Arnold
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Britain’s Atomic Bomb

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 1-7

  3. Windscale’s Origins

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 8-18

  4. After Hurricane

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 19-41

  5. The Ninth Anneal

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 42-59

  6. Damage Assessment and Damage Control

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 60-76

  7. The Penney Inquiry and the First White Paper

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 77-97

  8. Three More White Papers

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 98-123

  9. Causes: An Accident Waiting to Happen

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 124-135

  10. Appraisals and Reappraisals

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 136-153

  11. Postscript

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 154-160

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 161-235
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In 1957, one of the two reactors built at Windscale in Cumbria to produce plutonium for bombs was destroyed by fire in the world's first major nuclear accident. This book tells of the men who designed, built and operated the reactors, and it describes the fire and what followed.

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