Nuclear Reactor Accidents: Beyond the Headlines
If I mention nuclear reactor accidents, you’d probably think of Three Mile Island, Fukushima, or maybe Chernobyl. But there have been others that aren’t as well publicized.
Did you know there is an International Nuclear Event Scale? Like the Richter scale, but for nuclear events. A zero on the scale is a minor incident, while a seven is a major disaster, like Chernobyl or Fukushima, the only two such events at that scale so far.
Three Mile Island and the event discussed in this post were both level five events. One such incident is the Windscale fire incident in October 1957, which occurred during the Cold War era, starting in the 1940s.
The Windscale fire incident is a lesser-known nuclear reactor accident.
The incident is a significant example of a nuclear event that is not as widely known as some of the more publicized accidents.
Author's Summary
Nuclear reactor accidents like Windscale fire incident are lesser-known events.