Windscale: The British Chernobyl

Check out Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/GEOGRAPHICS for 10% off on your first purchase. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ This video is #sponsored by Squarespace. Source/Further reading: The Guardian, Sellafield stories: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/11/sellafield-stories-book-nuclear-accident Telegraph, Windscale: we were too busy to panic (paywall): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3309842/Windscale-fire-We-were-too-busy-to-panic.html Guardian, from Windscale to Sellafield: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/apr/18/energy.nuclearindustry Sellafield, official UK government history: https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2018/09/07/what-is-sellafield How John Cockroft’s filters avoided a nuclear disaster: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-29803990 History of the UK atomic project: https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/british-nuclear-program Tom Tuohy obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/may/07/nuclearpower Wired, inside Sellafield: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sellafield-nuclear-waste-site BBC on THORP: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46301596 History of Calder Hall: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-49583192