Windscale fire
Windscale fire On October 10, 1957, the graphite ... core of a British nuclear reactor at Windscale, Cumbria, caught fire, releasing substantial amounts of ... surrounding area. The event, known as the Windscale fire, was considered the world's worst ... accident in 1986. Background The design of Windscale Pile no. 1. After the Second World ... to convert unenriched Uranium into Plutonium. The Windscale Piles The reactors were built in ...
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Windscale fire   (translated from German)
Windscale fire To 10. October 1957 it comes in a British Nuclear reactor in Windscale (today Sellafield , Great Britain ) to a fire ... area of a former ammunition factory in Windscale at that became Irish lake ( Cumbria , Northwest ...
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Talk:Windscale fire
Talk:Windscale fire Still hot I did not in ... are a couple hundred degrees C. The Windscale reactor used unenriched uranium, so it was ... below critical. In the core of the Windscale reactor, there's a mass of fuel ... Was there a core meltdown during the Windscale fire? Should it be listed in the ...
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Windscale Vitrification plans   (translated from German)
Windscale Vitrification plans Those Windscale Vitrification plans (WVP) a plant is to ... Reprocessing plants in Sellafield (in former times Windscale). The liquid wastes are mixed thereby with ...
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Sellafield
... station, and other older nuclear facilities. History Windscale The Sellafield site is built on land that was formerly part of the Windscale nuclear site, which is named after a nearby village. Windscale was owned by the United Kingdom Atomic ... of the UKAEA and is still called Windscale. Two air-cooled, graphite-moderated Windscale reactors constituted the first British weapons ...
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Talk:Nuclear meltdown
... meltdown accidnet, while I do not believe Windscale is one, as the fuel only melted ... 62 08:07, 6 September 2005 (UTC) Windscale In a similar vein, I recollect that Windscale was in fact a graphite fire caused ... 44, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) In the Windscale fire, the core certainly got too hot ... the case. What happened at Chernobyl and Windscale was worse than a simple meltdown; ...
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Sellafield   (translated from German)
... Panorama The complex Sellafield was originally called Windscale (designated to another village in the area). To 8. October 1957 there were Windscale in the reactor (only to the production ... the reactor was shut down. See also: Windscale fire. The air-cooled, graphite moderated Windscale reactor was the first British production plant ...
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Talk:List of civilian nuclear accidents
... 21 September 2005 (UTC) Note: I removed Windscale as "not civilian" as its primary function ... I have made some changes to the Windscale entry, including removing a dead link, adding ... DocS 19:41, 21 September 2005 (UTC) Windscale's a tossup as to where it ... 21 September 2005 (UTC) I am moving Windscale to Military. It's sole purpose was ...
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Talk:Wigner energy
... work on the last para about the Windscale incident. It might be better to point people to the Windscale article or perhaps even create a page for the Windscale incident. I added an external link (lifted from the Windscale page) and this is a good reference ...
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Pebble bed reactor
... problem discovered in a famous accident, the Windscale fire. One of the reactors at the Windscale site in England (not a PBR) caught ... by neutron passage through the graphite. At Windscale, a program of regular annealing was put ... air, and cite the famous accidents at Windscale and Chernobyl—both graphite-moderated reactors. Others insist ...
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