Fifty years ago, on the night of 10 October 1957, Britain was on the brink of an unprecedented nuclear tragedy. A fire ripped through the radioactive materials in the core of Windscale, Britain's first nuclear reactor. Tom Tuohy, the deputy general manager at the site, led the team faced with dealing with a nightmare no-one had thought possible. "Mankind had never faced a situation like this; there's no-one to give you any advice," he said. Tuohy and his men were confronted by a terrifying dilemma. If they let the fire burn out, it could spread radioactivity over a large area of Britain. But if they put water on the reactor, they risked turning it into a nuclear bomb that could kill them all. Now tapes of the inquiry into the accident, heard for the first time in a BBC film, reveal the reasons why the politicians covered up the causes of the accident. Scientists had been warning about the dangers of an accident for some time. The safety margins of the radioactive materials inside the reactor were being further and further eroded. "They were running much too close to the precipice," says Dr Dunworth, a senior manager in the Nuclear Research Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire, who was one of those highlighting the potential dangers. But the politicians and the military ignored the warnings; instead they increased demands on Windscale to produce material for an H-bomb. For 50 years, the official record on the accident has been that the very men who had averted a potentially devastating accident were to blame for causing it. "I resented it at the time," says Peter Jenkinson, who was an assistant physicist at the reactor, "and I hoped the record would be put straight." After the inquiry, he and his colleagues finally got their wish. More videos and info below ALERT Japan nuke expert Fukushima / Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground. http://bit.ly/1BP553i Japan's Monju nuclear accident parts 1-3 A Coverup Revealed By Wikileaks Pre Fukushima http://bit.ly/1w9hyHK Fukushima catastrophe could be apocalyptic http://bit.ly/1BP553l Disaster.At.Chernobyl http://bit.ly/1w9hyHN Windscale Britains Biggest Nuclear Disaster http://bit.ly/1BP55jC Silent Storm atomic testing in Australia http://bit.ly/1w9hB6u Fukushima may be experiencing the early stages of a total China Syndrome. http://bit.ly/1w9hB6v Inside the sarcophagus at Chernobyl http://bit.ly/1BP55jP The Ringworm Children testing of large radiation doses on humans http://bit.ly/1w9hyHU The True Battle of Chernobyl http://bit.ly/1BP56Ec India has started thorium testing in the hopes of cleaner safer energy http://bit.ly/1w9hyHZ Cleaner Nuclear Power?: Thorium Revolt: Mineral to replace uranium as nuclear power source? http://bit.ly/1BP55Aq Nuclear meltdown The Reality Is To Frightening http://bit.ly/1w9hyYi Fairewinds Assertions of Fuel Pool Failures at Fukushima confirmed http://bit.ly/1BP56Ek Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone - Unspeakable Reality Will Impact All Of Humanity. http://bit.ly/1w9hBn5 Fukushima Radioactive Rain falls in Toronto,Canada at DANGEROUS levels (20 000 CPM) Aug 14 2011 http://bit.ly/1BP55QQ Fukushima Fallout found in Australia http://bit.ly/1w9hBDo
Windscale Britains Biggest Nuclear Disaster ( Nothing compared to Fukushima ).
Fifty years ago, on the night of 10 October 1957, Britain was on the brink of an unprecedented nuclear tragedy. A fire ripped through the radioactive materials in the core of Windscale, Britain's first nuclear reactor. Tom Tuohy, the deputy general manager at the site, led the team faced with dealing with a nightmare no-one had thought possible. "Mankind had never faced a situation like this; there's no-one to give you any advice," he said. Tuohy and his men were confronted by a terrifying dilemma. If they let the fire burn out, it could spread radioactivity over a large area of Britain. But if they put water on the reactor, they risked turning it into a nuclear bomb that could kill them all. Now tapes of the inquiry into the accident, heard for the first time in a BBC film, reveal the reasons why the politicians covered up the causes of the accident. Scientists had been warning about the dangers of an accident for some time. The safety margins of the radioactive materials inside the reactor were being further and further eroded. "They were running much too close to the precipice," says Dr Dunworth, a senior manager in the Nuclear Research Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire, who was one of those highlighting the potential dangers. But the politicians and the military ignored the warnings; instead they increased demands on Windscale to produce material for an H-bomb. For 50 years, the official record on the accident has been that the very men who had averted a potentially devastating accident were to blame for causing it. "I resented it at the time," says Peter Jenkinson, who was an assistant physicist at the reactor, "and I hoped the record would be put straight." After the inquiry, he and his colleagues finally got their wish. More videos and info below ALERT Japan nuke expert Fukushima / Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground. http://bit.ly/1BP553i Japan's Monju nuclear accident parts 1-3 A Coverup Revealed By Wikileaks Pre Fukushima http://bit.ly/1w9hyHK Fukushima catastrophe could be apocalyptic http://bit.ly/1BP553l Disaster.At.Chernobyl http://bit.ly/1w9hyHN Windscale Britains Biggest Nuclear Disaster http://bit.ly/1BP55jC Silent Storm atomic testing in Australia http://bit.ly/1w9hB6u Fukushima may be experiencing the early stages of a total China Syndrome. http://bit.ly/1w9hB6v Inside the sarcophagus at Chernobyl http://bit.ly/1BP55jP The Ringworm Children testing of large radiation doses on humans http://bit.ly/1w9hyHU The True Battle of Chernobyl http://bit.ly/1BP56Ec India has started thorium testing in the hopes of cleaner safer energy http://bit.ly/1w9hyHZ Cleaner Nuclear Power?: Thorium Revolt: Mineral to replace uranium as nuclear power source? http://bit.ly/1BP55Aq Nuclear meltdown The Reality Is To Frightening http://bit.ly/1w9hyYi Fairewinds Assertions of Fuel Pool Failures at Fukushima confirmed http://bit.ly/1BP56Ek Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone - Unspeakable Reality Will Impact All Of Humanity. http://bit.ly/1w9hBn5 Fukushima Radioactive Rain falls in Toronto,Canada at DANGEROUS levels (20 000 CPM) Aug 14 2011 http://bit.ly/1BP55QQ Fukushima Fallout found in Australia http://bit.ly/1w9hBDo
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