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Sellafield
(redirected from Windscale)

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Sellafield
the site of an atomic power station and nuclear reprocessing plant in NW England, in W Cumbria


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So he used data from the 1959 Windscale accident in England, transposed it onto the Santa Susana Field Lab and ran 20,000 simulations to estimate how much radiation residents may have been exposed to.
The potential danger of that energy was demonstrated in 1957 by the world's third-worst nuclear accident, the Windscale fire in Sellafield, England.
Sellafield, once known more poetically as Windscale, does leak radioactive waste into the Irish Sea, and has acknowledged (accidental, one supposes) emissions of radioactivity into the atmosphere.
 
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