Windscale: The British Chernobyl

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Source/Further reading:

The Guardian, Sellafield stories: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...  

Telegraph, Windscale: we were too busy to panic (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...  

Guardian, from Windscale to Sellafield: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...  

Sellafield, official UK government history: https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2018/09/07/wh...  

How John Cockroft’s filters avoided a nuclear disaster: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-c...  

History of the UK atomic project: https://www.atomicheritage.org/histor...  

Tom Tuohy obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/environme...  

Wired, inside Sellafield: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sella...  

BBC on THORP: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-463...  

History of Calder Hall: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-c...