Explore: Windscale Nuclear Laboratories

Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022,

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

The world's first nuclear reactor meltdown was the NRX reactor at Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario, Canada in 1952. The worst nuclear accident to date

England, in 1957 (see Windscale fire) Chapelcross nuclear power station (civilian), Scotland, in 1967 Saint-Laurent Nuclear Power Plant (civilian),

Mountains Nuclear Waste". Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2007-06-17. "Windscale Nuclear Incident". The Virtual Nuclear Tourist. 2005-12-22

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

A nuclear reactor is a device used to sustain a controlled fission nuclear chain reaction. They are used for commercial electricity, marine propulsion

included a uranium metal plant at Springfields, nuclear reactors and a plutonium processing plant at Windscale, and a gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment

Nuclear Accident (Second ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. p. 147. ISBN 9781349240081. Arnold, Lorna (1995). Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

involved in two of the best-known nuclear disasters: an untested graphite annealing process contributed to the Windscale fire (but the graphite itself did