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Windscale 1957

Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
  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. Three More White Papers

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 98-123
  8. Causes: An Accident Waiting to Happen

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 124-135
  9. Appraisals and Reappraisals

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 136-153
  10. Postscript

    • Lorna Arnold
    Pages 154-160
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 161-235

About this book

The aim of this book is to set the 1957 Windscale accident in its historical context in the immediate post-war period and the early days of the Cold War, to describe the event and its consequences and to evaluate it from the vantage point of 1990.

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