Windscale incident

Dunster, H. J., Howells, H. Templeton, W. L. 1958. District surveys following the Windscale incident, October 1957. In Proceedings of the Second UN Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. United Nations, New York. 

N. G. Stewart and R. N. Crooks. Long-range travel of the radioactive cloud from the accident at Windscale. Nature (London) 182, 627 (1958) A, C. Chamberlain and H. J. Dunster, Deposition of radioactivity in North-West England from the accident at Wind-scale. Nature (London) 182,629 (1958) H. J. Dunster, H. Howells, and W. L. Templeton, District surveys following the Windscale incident October 1957. Proc. U.N. Int. Conf. Peaceful Uses At. Energy, 2nd., Geneva Pap. 319 (1958). 

This book concentrates on the early period of atomic power, where, apart from the Windscale incident, Britain appeared to be taking great strides in this new and dynamic technology. Slowly, however, things began to unravel. The Authority went down too many blind alleys. The firms constructing the power stations were... 

The first major shakeup came about following the 1957 Windscale incident. Eollowing the accident. Sir Alexander Fleck, who was then Chairman of ICI, was asked to draw up a series of reports addressing this structure of the AEA and of the various safety issues which the accident had highhghted. 

By 1957, attention had turned away from the production piles. Their role would be taken over by the new PIPPA reactors, and they were fast becoming curiosities of the past. The AEA was more hard-pressed than ever with its new responsibilities, particularly in regard to the nascent nuclear power programme. There were considerable shortages of personnel in key areas, and the Windscale incident would show up very clearly the administrative and logistical shortcomings of the AEA. 

A paper entitled DistrictSurveys Following Windscale Incident was presented at a United Nations conference in Geneva in September 1958, and reference is made to polonium in the paper. The reference is hardly conspicuous however—on the fifth page of the article appears the statement Smaller quantities of other fission products such as caesiiun-137, strontium-89 and 90, ruthenium-103 and 106, zirconium-95, niobium-95 and cerium-144 together with polonium-210 were also released . 

TNA PRO AB 38/51. Windscale incident, 10 October 1957. Adapted from Report on the Accident at Windscale No. 1 Pile on 10th October 1957 , Chapter II, Events Leading up to the Accident ... 

HI Dunster, H Howells and WL Templeton (2007). District Surveys following the Windscale Incident, October 1957 , Journal of Radiological Protection, 27, 217-230. 

TNA PRO AB 6/2352. Windscale incident. Relative Hazards of Po210 and 1131 in Windscale Accident. WG Marley and NG Stewart, 6 November 1957. 

Although Hinkley Point was the CEGB s third reactor, it too suffered from a redesign of the core following the Windscale incident, delaying the project by around a year or so. Also as a consequence of the incident, the CEGB decided that reactor number 2 should be fitted with a great deal more instrumentation than would be necessary... 

TNA PRO AB 16/2362. Windscale incident. Proposals for Extending the life of the Calder and Chapelcross Reactors by Reducing the Rate of Storage of Wigner Energy. 

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