Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster (2007)
• October 8th, 2007 • 1h 28min
Documentary
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Film revealing how political ambition fuelled the Windscale fire of 1957 and then dictated that the heroes of Windscale be made the scapegoats.
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