The Windscale Piles were two air-cooled graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the Windscale nuclear site in Cumberland (now known as Sellafield site,...

reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. Windscale Pile No. 1 was operational in October...

required the construction of the Windscale Piles and the First Generation Reprocessing Plant, and it was renamed "Windscale Works". Subsequent key developments...

construction of the Springfields Chemical and Fuel Element Plants, the Windscale Piles, Windscale plutonium extraction plant, Capenhurst gaseous diffusion plant...

commune in Centre-West in France Windscale Piles, a former pair of nuclear reactors in Cumberland, England Grandes-Piles, Quebec, municipality in Mékinac...

Windscale pile". World Nuclear News. 21 August 2008. "Windscale Pile problems". 27 June 2000. Leatherdale, Duncan (4 November 2014). "Windscale Piles:...

the design and building of Britain's nuclear reactors such as the Windscale Piles and Calder Hall nuclear power station. To support this an extensive...

amounts of Wigner energy. This problem led to the infamous Windscale fire at the Windscale Piles, a nuclear reactor complex in the United Kingdom, in 1957...

after the exposure event. From 1955 to 1957 the Windscale Piles had been releasing polonium-210. The Windscale fire brought the need for testing of the land...

Boondoggles". Uspirg.org. Leatherdale, Duncan (November 4, 2014). "Windscale Piles: Cockcroft's Follies avoided nuclear disaster". BBC News. "Episode...

reactors Mostly early reactors such as the Chicago pile, Obninsk am 1, Windscale piles, RBMK, Magnox, and others such as AGR use graphite as a moderator....

civil nuclear programme, opening a nuclear power station, Calder Hall at Windscale, England, in 1956. The British installed base of nuclear reactors used...

Allibone 1984, pp. 201–204. Leatherdale, Duncan (14 November 2014). "Windscale Piles: Cockcroft's Follies avoided nuclear disaster". BBC. Retrieved 3 September...

processing plant at Windscale, and a gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment facility at Capenhurst, near Chester. The two Windscale reactors became operational...

about this condition.: 15–29  The Windscale fire resulted when uranium metal fuel ignited inside plutonium production piles; surrounding dairy farms were...

"Evaluation of graphite safety issues for the British production piles at Windscale". AEA Technology. IAEA. IAEA-TECDOC—1043. Retrieved 13 November 2010...

on commissioning Britain's first production nuclear reactors, the Windscale Piles, designed to produce plutonium for military purposes. When the emphasis...

original Hurricane device was produced in the nuclear reactor at Windscale, but the Windscale Piles did not have the capacity to provide sufficient material for...

former site of the Windscale nuclear reactor and Calder Hall. The British government began developing the site in 1947 as the Windscale Piles plutonium production...

the view to the northwest was dominated by the twin chimneys of the Windscale Piles nuclear reactors. However, these landmarks were dismantled in the early...

"Evaluation of graphite safety issues for the British production piles at Windscale]". AEA Technology. IAEA. IAEA-TECDOC—1043. Archived from the original...

(ARS) as a direct result of the disaster. October 8, 1957 – Windscale fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms, 100 to 240 cancer...

power. The world's first commercial nuclear power station, Calder Hall at Windscale, England was connected to the national power grid on 27 August 1956. In...

Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991. Windscale fire, United Kingdom, October 8, 1957. Fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms...

Hinton decided to build the plant at Windscale; Sir John Hill worked on a computer; Tom Tuohy managed the piles; David Deverell was a senior chemical...

Description Victims Cost (in millions 2006 US$) INES rating Spring, 1957 Windscale (now Sellafield), UK Radioactivity release from a military reactor contaminated...