The remnants of Britain’s worst nuclear accident are slowly being scrubbed from the Cumbrian skyline. The Windscale Piles nuclear reactors were built near Seascale in 1947 to make weapons-grade plutonium for nuclear bombs as Cold War tensions emerged. But a fire at the reactors on October 10, 1957, spewed radioactive contamination across northern Europe and ended their work. Their twin 400-foot, cigar-like chimneys are still being dismantled bit-by-bit, with one no longer in sight and the other now two-thirds of … read more »
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