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 ...

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 ...

Northwest England, October 1957. A fire breaks out in the Windscale reactor on the site of the nuclear complex now known as Sellafield. Radioactive gases contaminate an area of several hundred ...

Rebellion Games has shared a new video for Atomfall, giving a first look at the gameplay, world and setting for their retro-futurist survival action game. Atomfall is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X ...

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 ...

The Windscale fire on which Rebellion's latest survival game is based was eventually found to be the result of defective machinery, combined with irresponsible construction of the reactor itself.

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 ...