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Anniversary of UK’s Windscale nuclear accident

Radiation Free Lakeland 10th Oct 2018 Today folk from Radiation Free Lakeland and Close Capenhurst remembered the 61st anniversary of the Windscale Fire. During 10–11th October, 1957 A
serious fire developed in the core of a nuclear reactor at Windscale Works,
Sellafield, northwest England, which led to the release of significant
quantities of radioactive material into the environment over a wide area
including but not exclusively Cumbria. This release of radioactive
materials including polonium, led to an increase in radiation linked
diseases and conditions from cancers to Downs Syndrome.
https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/remembering-windscale-outside-the-gates-where-nuclearmudness-is-made/

October 13, 2018 - Posted by | history, UK

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