The Windscale Piles were a pair of graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the northwest coast of Eng
The Windscale Piles were a pair of graphite-moderated nuclear reactors on the northwest coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria). The two reactors, referred to at the time as “piles”, were built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. Their purpose was to produce weapons-grade plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. Windscale Pile No. 1 was operational in October 1950 followed by Pile No. 2 in June 1951. They were intended to last five years, and served for seven until shut down after the Windscale fire on 10 October 1957. -- source link
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