Sat 6 Oct 2007
[BBC 5/10/2007] Fifty years ago, on the night of 10 October 1957, Britain was on the brink of an unprecedented nuclear tragedy.
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 nightmare no-one had thought possible.
“Mankind had never faced a situation like this; there’s no-one to give you any advice,” he said. more.