In 1957 a fire at the Sellafield power plant in Cumbria sparked one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, the ramifications ...

If the fire in front of them wasn’t bad enough, the workers knew that any mistake could turn northwest England into a nuclear wasteland. For days, no one at Windscale, a nuclear plant on the ...

Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, or Fukishima in Japan, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination. And that is because the full extent of the fire that broke out in 1957 at the ...

Unlike Chernobyl in Ukraine, or Fukishima in Japan, Windscale in Cumbria is not vivid in the public imagination. And that is because the full extent of the fire that broke out in 1957 at the ...

A fire ripped through the radioactive materials in the core of Windscale, Britain's first nuclear reactor. Tom Tuohy, the deputy general manager at the site, led the team faced with dealing with a ...

Rebellion's new game Atomfall is a survival-action title, inspired by the Windscale fire. Set in a quarantine zone five years after the fire, players attempt to hunt for answers as to what ...

Atomfall takes inspiration from the 1957 Windscale fire, the worst nuclear disaster in British history. Between esoteric cults and rogue government agencies, this unlikely quarantine zone in the ...

Most people will have heard of them. But fewer are aware of the Windscale fire. It was one of the world's first - and remains the UK's worst - nuclear accident. A nuclear reactor at the site in ...