Abstract
Windscale is a site on the coast of Cumbria in the north-west of England (see Figure 7.1). It contains four 50-MW reactors (the ‘Calder Hall’ reactors) and an early 33-MW prototype AGR reactor. Far more significantly, it is the site at which fuel from the magnox reactors in the UK is reprocessed and where plutonium fuel for military use and for use in the experimental fast reactor at Dounreay in Scotland is fabricated.
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Pearce, D., Edwards, L., Beuret, G. (1979). The Windscale Inquiry: the Proceedings. In: Decision Making for Energy Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04985-1_7
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