Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

ISBN-13: 9781349105847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 235 str.

OBE Lorna Arnold; Sir Alan Cottrell

Opis

The aim of this book is to set the 1957 Windscale accident in its historical context in the immediate post-war period and the early days of the Cold War, to describe the event and its consequences and to evaluate it from the vantage point of 1990.

Spis treści

Britain's atomic bomb; Windscale's origins; after Hurricane; the ninth anneal; damage assessment and damage control; the Penney Inquiry and the first white paper; three more white papers; causes - an accident waiting to happen; appraisals and reappraisals; postscript.