Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Britain's own Nuclear disaster in the 1950's

Cooling pond between Windscale ReactorsThe Windscale Disaster "In October 1957, after several years of successful operation, the workers at Windscale noticed some curious readings from their temperature monitoring equipment as they carried out standard maintenance. The reactor temperature was slowly rising during a time that they expected it to be falling."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well written article.