Britain's Chernobyl: The Windscale Nuclear Disaster | Windscale 1957 | Spark

After man harnessed the power of nuclear energy at the end of WW2, the world's richest countries began to start their own nuclear programs. Britain was one of these countries, building the Windscale nuclear power plant. This would soon spell disaster and the site would be the location of the world's first nuclear disaster.
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[00:00:02]1 Introduction to the nuclear age and the bombing of Hiroshima. [00:01:00]2 Britain’s development of their own atomic bomb at Windscale. [00:01:22]3 The Windscale accident, the world’s first nuclear accident. [00:03:35]4 The Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear explosion. [00:04:02]5 The impact of the atomic bomb on World War II and the subsequent arms race. [00:05:01]6 Britain’s entry into the nuclear club and the challenges faced. [00:06:05]7 Postwar Britain’s weakened state and the decision to pursue a nuclear policy. [00:07:00]8 The choice of plutonium for the British weapon and the risks involved. [00:10:25]9 Warnings about the potential for a fire in British reactors. [00:15:00]10 The Soviet Union’s progress in nuclear weapons development. [00:21:44]11 The process of releasing Wigner energy and the onset of the Windscale fire. [00:30:01]12 The fight to extinguish the fire and the release of radioactivity. [00:34:01]13 The aftermath of the fire and the assessment of radioactive dangers. [00:39:51]14 Reflection on Britain’s nuclear program and its costs. [00:41:01]15 The misinterpretation of an American accident that led to safety measures at Windscale. [00:45:00]16 The British explosion of their first hydrogen device post-Windscale fire.

[@christadauria4362]

While In Gallaudet University as the undergraduate college student in beginning of fall semester of 1972, I read Science Digest magazine about Windscale Nuclear-Power Plant accident in United Kingdom happening on October 10, 1957. Then I told my college professor of P.E. (Physical Education) about it in my classroom, I learned about dangers of the nuclear-power plants as environment issues as I brought one best paper back from the newsstand store in Georgetown, DC in the area of Washington, DC. In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the accident occurred in Three-Mile Island Nuclear- Power Plant on March 1979 when our US President Jimmy Carter who experienced as the nuclear engineer as he was in US Navy submarine in his early military backgrounds previously in a fact. He helped the nuclear engineers and other teams to prevent the meltdown of Three- Mile Island Nuclear- Power plant from explosion to commit radioactive winds to out spreading over the larger zones in Pennsylvania successfully. Now Three-Mile Island Nuclear-Power plant is permanently closed- no longer operated in service.

[@jayc2469]

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[@aerotube7291]

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[@user-oy4tt4xm8d]

Stacking conditions of high energy nuclei resulting in criticality level and cascacading effect. 🙄

[@rosariodagosto6484]

THEY HAD TO BE STOPED

[@vscreation550]

Very few people know about this just because this disaster didn't happened in Russia or any other 3rd world country

[@monkeyboy4746]

They should have just put it Scotland.

[@jimbuskist3190]

Dat not right😮

[@cmillerg6306]

WWII economically killed England. In 1940 they stood up to Germany alone. Its sad.

[@sebinsebastian9404]

That's far less compared to what you did to India for 200 years. Your money for war came through us millions of Indians fight war for you, you won't even mentioned them.

[@conzmoleman]

After England plundered and pillaged and colonized half the world for the better part of a millennia they karmically had it coming. Naturally the Soviet Union bails out the planet by defeating the nazis at a massive human cost and the West repays them by trying to relentlessly destroy them. lol. shameful

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Believe me you there's nothing worse than your piles going on fire.

[@J.D.Blackburn-ds5de]

⚛️ 🤬 I hate when documentaries r lazy n use the wrong 📹 video footage of the 💣 bombing of Nagasaki for Hiroshima n 🔁 vice versa... Do ya 📚homework ppl.

[@haydnj1202]

Hardly a disaster . Click bait

[@Unschaerferelation137]

The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, and one of the worst in the world, ranked in severity at level 5 out of 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

[@Unschaerferelation137]

Windscale fire at Sellafield (United Kingdom), 10 October 1957. Annealing of graphite moderator at a military air-cooled reactor caused the graphite and the metallic uranium fuel to catch fire, releasing radioactive pile material as dust into the environment. 100 to 240 cancer deaths were caused by the incident.

[@top6ear]

Because of wokeness they would have to call that plane "enola homosexual" now

[@jameswhite699]

U sure it wouldn't be "gender fluid"?

[@nickfliesplaces]

Nah man it have to be gender free remember I as a gay man can’t be gay due to this new woke bs the plane would be “emotional neutral” and only referred to as it/that pronouns

[@johnfink69]

Duck n cover

[@the80hdgaming]

Bert the turtle was very alert...