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 ...

On the morning of 10 October 1957, a planned energy release procedure in Windscale Pile 1 did not go to plan, and unintentionally heated parts of the reactor. Scientists were expecting the reactor to ...

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 ...

For days, no one at Windscale, a nuclear plant on the coast of Cumbria, knew that one of the site’s two plutonium-producing reactors was on fire. On October 10, 1957, a fire was discovered in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first visual inspection of the damaged areas of the Windscale 1 reactor core has been carried out, 50 years since a fire ruined the military unit. The extra data should help in dismantling the ...

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 ...