April 2007
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The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain’s history, ranked in severity at level 5 out of a possible 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The fire took place in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale facility in Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria). The two graphite-moderated reactors, referred to at the time as “piles”, had been built in 1950 as part of the British atomic bomb project.The fire burned for three days and there was a release of radioactive contamination that spread across the UK and Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
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