Recreation of an actual nuclear weapon accident. A B-52 carrying a Hydrogen Bomb weapon or H-Bomb, crashes in Northern California. Sequence from Nuclear Rescue 911. vce.com Producer: Peter KuranFifty 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, Britains 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 theres 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. ... Japans Monju nuclear accident parts 1-3 A Coverup Revealed By Wikileaks Pre Fukushima ... Fukushima catastrophe could be apocalyptic ... Disaster.At.Chernobyl ... Windscale Britains Biggest Nuclear Disaster ... Silent Storm atomic testing in Australia ... Fukushima may be experiencing the early stages of a total China Syndrome. ... Inside the sarcophagus at Chernobyl ... The Ringworm Children testing of large radiation doses on humans ... The True Battle of Chernobyl ... India has started thorium testing in the hopes of cleaner safer energy ... Cleaner Nuclear Power?: Thorium Revolt: Mineral to replace uranium as nuclear power source? ... Nuclear meltdown The Reality Is To Frightening ... Fairewinds Assertions of Fuel Pool Failures at Fukushima confirmed ... Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone - Unspeakable Reality Will Impact All Of Humanity. ... Fukushima Radioactive Rain falls in Toronto,Canada at DANGEROUS levels (20 000 CPM) Aug 14 2011 ... Fukushima Fallout found in Australia ...Deadly Secret - Russia didnt tell this community their children were playing in radioactive waste, the death toll is increasing due to this disregard for the lives of ordinary citizens. For downloads and more information visit: ... In Russia, the toll of a terrible nuclear accident is only just emerging after years of official denial and cover-up. The truth of what occurred at the Mayak nuclear weapons plant, at the foot of the Ural Mountains, is by any measure appalling. With radioactive pollution far in excess of Chernobyl, the countryside around Mayak, including the village of Muslyumova, has been poisoned. And the people whove been forced to stay there as guinea pigs for the Russian government are dying. But for a long time, they didnt know it. The accident and its staggering after-effects were kept hidden from the villagers - and from the rest of the world - until it was too late. Produced by SBS. Ref - 1452 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the worlds most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the worlds top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel youll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.The following information courtesy Wikipedia: The SL-1, or Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators. The direct cause was the improper withdrawal of the central control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The event is the only known fatal reactor accident in the United States. The accident released about 80 curies (3.0 TBq) of Iodine-131, which was not consider

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