The fire began on October 10, 1957, in No 1 of the twin 'piles', or reactors, at Windscale. It burned for 50 hours before being discovered and took three days to bring under control.

The fire began on October 10, 1957, in No 1 of the twin 'piles', or reactors, at Windscale. It burned for 50 hours before being discovered and took three days to bring under control.

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 ...

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 ...

The role-playing game Atomfall is based on the 1957 Windscale fire, which affected one of the two nuclear reactors in the Cumberland area of northwestern England.