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. Tuohy and his men were confronted by a terrifying dilemma. If they let the fire burn out, it could spread radioactivity over a large area of Britain. But if they put water on the reactor, they risked turning it into a nuclear bomb that could kill them all. Now tapes of the inquiry into the accident, heard for the first time in a BBC film, reveal the reasons why the politicians covered up the causes of the accident. Scientists had been warning about the dangers of an accident for some time. The safety margins of the radioactive materials inside the reactor were being further and further eroded. "They were running much too close to the precipice," says Dr Dunworth, a senior manager in the Nuclear Research Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire, who was one of those highlighting the potential dangers. But the politicians and the military ignored the warnings; instead they increased demands on Windscale to produce material for an H-bomb. For 50 years, the official record on the accident has been that the very men who had averted a potentially devastating accident were to blame for causing it. "I resented it at the time," says Peter Jenkinson, who was an assistant physicist at the reactor, "and I hoped the record would be put straight." After the inquiry, he and his colleagues finally got their wish. More videos and info below ALERT Japan nuke expert Fukushima / Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj-sLvCMFGs Japan's Monju nuclear accident parts 1-3 A Coverup Revealed By Wikileaks Pre Fukushima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWudT8eEYk Fukushima catastrophe could be apocalyptic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHAo_29HRrs Disaster.At.Chernobyl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynuJRg-qPCQ Windscale Britains Biggest Nuclear Disaster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ4vtUzG6sQ Silent Storm atomic testing in Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDOUeniCNKM Fukushima may be experiencing the early stages of a total China Syndrome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnZi4DY_Dpo Inside the sarcophagus at Chernobyl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II8lDN4ufI4 The Ringworm Children testing of large radiation doses on humans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMp1tef4lg4 The True Battle of Chernobyl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb8GSD2PAoQ India has started thorium testing in the hopes of cleaner safer energy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_FtSJZTJ_E Cleaner Nuclear Power?: Thorium Revolt: Mineral to replace uranium as nuclear power source? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzvi1XAHqk0 Nuclear meltdown The Reality Is To Frightening http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K-ohQNV19g Fairewinds Assertions of Fuel Pool Failures at Fukushima confirmed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2C7ExaotGk Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone - Unspeakable Reality Will Impact All Of Humanity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-bDROunQTg Fukushima Radioactive Rain falls in Toronto,Canada at DANGEROUS levels (20 000 CPM) Aug 14 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xqmOMhCz0 Fukushima Fallout found in Australia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4jm6nxL_Eg

• published: 16 Sep 2011
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