Windscale 1957: anatomy of a nuclear accident
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St. Martin's Press
1992
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| Physical Description: | XXV, 235 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0312068417 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Appendices viii
Foreword by Sir Alan Cottrell, FRS ix
Note on Documentation x
List of Abbreviations xi
Glossary xiv
Introduction xxi
Figures xxiv
1 Britain s Atomic Bomb 1
2 Windscale s Origins 8
Design and construction 11
3 After Hurricane 19
A novel kind of organisation 19
The atomic bomb programme 20
The civil power programme 21
Future systems 24
The H bomb programme 25
Commitments and resources 26
Windscale after Hurricane 29
The Windscale men 39
4 The Ninth Anneal 42
Monday, 7 October 44
Tuesday, 8 October 45
Wednesday, 9 October 47
Thursday, 10 October 47
Friday, 11 October 50
Saturday, 12 October 52
Environmental contamination 53
5 Damage Assessment and Damage Control 60
Consultations 60
Preliminary inquiries 64
Action: radiological surveys 71
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Contents vii
Appendices 161
Note on Sources 205
Notes and References 208
Bibliography 225
Index 231
List of Appendices
I Chronology of events, October
1957 October 1958 161
II Responsibilities and organisation of the IG 164
III Instruction of 14 November 1955 on Wigner
releases 167
IV Summary of Wigner releases in Windscale
piles, 1953 57 168
V Note on uranium fuel cartridges in the
Windscale piles 169
VI Note on other cartridges in the Windscale
piles 172
VII Emergency site procedure at Windscale 175
VIII Calculations of emergency levels for
iodine 131 178
IX Estimates of fission product and other
radioactive releases resulting from the
1957 fire in Windscale Pile No. 1 184
X Estimates of total radiological impact of the
radioactive releases resulting from the
1957 fire in Windscale Pile No. 1 187
XI Report of Penney Inquiry 189
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Action: cleaning up 73
The production programme: assessing the impact 75
6 The Penney Inquiry and the First White
Paper 77
The Penney report 77
What do we say? 85
A matter of collective responsibility 86
Health and safety 87
Graphite 89
Further inquiries 92
The White Paper (Cmnd 302) 93
Telling the world 94
7 Three More White Papers 98
The first Fleck report, on the organisation of
certain parts of the UKAEA (Cmnd 338) 98
The second Fleck report, on the organisation
for control of health and safety in the
UKAEA (Cmnd 342) 104
The third Fleck report, on technical
evaluation (Cmnd 471) 110
The IPCS disagrees 117
Pile No.2 121
8 Causes: An Accident Waiting to Happen 124
Some sceptics 127
Reinterpreting the evidence 128
Conclusions 133
9 Appraisals and Reappraisals 136
First thoughts, 1957 137
Report to the Geneva Conference, 1958 138
Further thoughts from the MRC, 1959/60 139
Reassessments, 1963 76 143
After Three Mile Island, 1979 88 144
Windscale under scrutiny 147
The worst nuclear accident in the world,
1986 151
Final words on the health impact? 152
10 Postscript 154
The end of an era 154
The Windscale piles: present and future 159
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