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Windscale 1957
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Lorna Arnold
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-27 - Publisher: Springer

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In 1957, one of the two reactors built at Windscale in Cumbria to produce plutonium for bombs was destroyed by fire in the world's first major nuclear accident.
Windscale 1957
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Lorna Arnold
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-18 - Publisher: Springer

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The aim of this book is to set the 1957 Windscale accident in its historical context in the immediate post-war period and the early days of the Cold War, to des
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Serhii Plokhy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Almos
Windscale Fire, October 1957
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Peter John Taylor
Categories: Nuclear fuels
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher:

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Science and Spectacle
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Jon Agar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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This book relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain.