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The radioactive fallout from the 1957 fire at the Windscale site, since renamed Sellafied, was far worse than originally claimed. The site operated two nuclear reactors to manufacture plutonium for UK nuclear weapons.
The Irish Centre for High-end Computing calculated the fallout distribution using wind and rain data from the time, and found that the fire, which burned inside a nuclear reactor for 3 days, spread radiation across the British Isles, and Northern Europe.
Below is their computer recreation of the spread of radiation from the Windscale Fire.
"Revisiting the 1957 Windscale Nuclear Accident using Atmospheric Reanalysis data"
https://shrtm.nu/E7Lj
#nuclear #histodons @histodons #Windscale #Sellafield @sts @nuclearhumanities
The Irish Centre for High-end Computing calculated the fallout distribution using wind and rain data from the time, and found that the fire, which burned inside a nuclear reactor for 3 days, spread radiation across the British Isles, and Northern Europe.
Below is their computer recreation of the spread of radiation from the Windscale Fire.
"Revisiting the 1957 Windscale Nuclear Accident using Atmospheric Reanalysis data"
https://shrtm.nu/E7Lj
#nuclear #histodons @histodons #Windscale #Sellafield @sts @nuclearhumanities
Revisiting the 1957 Windscale Nuclear Accident using Atmospheric Reanalysis data
A look at the 1957 Windscale Fire in what later became the Sellafield Nuclear site. Using advanced atmospheric datasets unavailable at the time, we take a look at how the event may have affected Ireland.ICHEC
