1957 Windscale Fire

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• Contaminated evidence  - A Guardian article of 2007 discusses the secrecy and political cover-ups that followed the fire, and subsequent radioactive contamination.
• Thomas Tuohy (1917-2008)  - The Independent's obituary of the "Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire.".
• When Windscale burned  - An article in Nuclear Engineering International on the 50th anniversary of the fire; covers the incident itself, and discusses the subsequent government inquiry and its publication.
• Windscale Nuclear Incident  - Analyses the fire at Windscale which resulted in the first significant release of radioactive material from a reactor.
• Windscale: A nuclear disaster  - A feature from the BBC on the 50th anniversary of the fire; includes an account of the political context, and a transcription of the contemporary inquiry, as revised in 1989.