Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

by Lorna Arnold, Sir Alan Cottrell (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349105847
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	1st ed. 1992
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

LORNA ARNOLD OBE is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary British History, UK. She is author of Britain and the H-Bomb (2001) and Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and their Aftermath.

Table of Contents

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.