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<div class="text"><<typewriter "It’s 1947. Two years ago, the USA dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.\n\nBritish scientists had played a major part in developing atomic science, but now America is refusing to share her nuclear secrets with other nations. So much for the ‘special relationship'.\n\nTo secure our place on the world stage, we must develop our own atomic bomb – and we must do it quickly.\n\nThree men – William Penney, John Cockcroft and Christopher Hinton – known as the three Bold Bad Barons – are given the job of building the Bomb.\n\nYou’ve recently graduated in physics and you’re very grateful to be given a job helping them. You’re off to the village of Seascale, on the northwest coast, to start the first step – producing plutonium.\n\nTiming is tight – a bomb has to be made by 1952, since that’s when we think the Russians will have it – but that’s only five years away!">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "The first problem is that producing plutonium also produces an awful lot of very destructive heat. How should you control the temperature in the reactor? In the US, they apparently use water to cool the reactors. Should we copy them?">>
<<timed 20s>><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/phys.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">''Physics Division:'' If the water supply was to fail there would be an unstoppable melt down of the reactor. It would be a disaster of unprecedented scale. The cooling of the reactor has to be reliable and constant.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</timed>>
<<timed 25s>><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/scientist.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">''Science Division:'' It won’t look pretty but it will be functional. We can install huge fans and tall towers to cool the reactor. It will be reliable and just rely on electricity rather than nature. We are world leading experts in industrial ventilation, after all.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</timed>>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "Over tea one day, your colleague Terence Price, starts to wonder what would happen if the reactor ever had a problem.">><<timed 10s>><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/tp.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">''Terence:'' If there was a sudden release of radiation, then those fans are going to blow radioactive material right up through the towers and into the open air. Might upset people a bit.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</timed>><<timed 14s>><table><tbody><tr><td class="t75"><div class="sbr">Hmm. We probably should have included filters to catch any harmful releases of radiation when be built the towers, shouldn’t we?</div></td><td class="t20"></td></tr></tbody></table><</timed>><<timed 20s>><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/tp.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">''Terence:'' Well, they’re not quite finished yet. Perhaps we should suggest that filters should be added?</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</timed>></div>
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<<linkreplace "Consult the Engineering Department">><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/phys.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">Now come on. We may be the best ventilation engineers in the world, but you just can’t filter two and half tonnes of air per second. It’s simply impossible! It will waste lots of money and put the build back years!</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</linkreplace>>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "After all, there won’t be a problem as long as you can keep control of the temperature in the reactor core. This is, essentially, a block of graphite through which many holes have been drilled. These holes will be plugged with the uranium cartridges, which will react with each other to produce the plutonium.\n\nThe cartridges are covered in aluminium which, along with the graphite, is used to absorb and disperse the heat generated as the cartridges pass through the reactor core. Eventually, the cartridges will fall into the cooling pool of water at the base of the reactor.\n\nThe trouble is, Windscale simply isn’t producing enough plutonium – and there are rumours that America has gone beyond the atomic bomb and is now testing the immensely more powerful hydrogen bomb. We’re falling behind again. The Prime Minister – Winston Churchill – demands that you pull out all the stops to make him a bomb.\n\nYou can speed up Windscale’s production of plutonium by taking away some of the aluminium casing that surrounds the uranium cartridges. Should you do that? It’s one of the key safety elements within the plant’s design…">>
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<<linkreplace "Consult a Physicist">><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/phys.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">This is not to be recommended. Not only is it unsafe but we are not sure what will happen. But we’ll be interested to see your results.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</linkreplace>>
<<linkreplace "Consult the Engineering Department">><table><tbody><tr><td class="t20"><img src="image/scientist.png"></td><td class="m"></td><td class="t75"><div class="sbl">I can shave off around 1/6 of an inch from each of half a million aluminium fins. It might speed things up just enough?</div></td></tr></tbody></table><</linkreplace>><</timed>>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "Windscale has managed to produce enough plutonium (132 grams, as big as a 50p piece) to build a bomb. We’re finally an atomic power.\n\nHang on. The Americans have got their hydrogen bomb working – so we need one too. And to make one, we need a lot more plutonium.\n\nThe thing is, the Windscale reactor is starting to behave very oddly.\n\nPeriodically, but unpredictably, parts of the reactor cores are getting dangerously hot. You are managing the problem using something called a ‘Wigner’ release (heating the entire core to enable the stored energy to be released in a controlled fashion) – but you don’t really know why this works.\n\nNo-one has run a plant like this before, and problems are being solved by trial and error. This makes you rather nervous. You are, after all, sitting on top of an atomic bomb.\n\nPublic opinion about nuclear power is also shifting. Five years ago, you were heroes, the potential saviours of British pride and power. Now, people are starting to protest against nuclear weaponry. They're even talking about mad scientists playing God.\n\nYou’re also worried about strange radiation readings around Windscale, which are somewhat higher than they ought to be – and your family live in the local village.\n\nWhat should you do?">>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "On one of your regular inspections of the site you you notice that there seems to be a lot of broken cartridges that are falling outside the reactor's cooling pool. Could they be part of the problem? Or should you press for a fuller investigation of Windscale's procedures?">>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "But all the time, the pressure is to increase production. To succeed, Windscale must increase production by around 500%. You could do this if you use new cartridges, with enriched uranium and lithium magnesium (and less protective aluminium) Do you:">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "But despite your success in making atomic bombs, you've made little progress with the hydrogen bomb. And then, wholly unexpectedly, on October 4 1957, the Western world is rocked to its core when the Russians successfully launch the world’s first orbiting satellite. Sputnik represents a massive threat to both American and British national security. The Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, decides to try and use this clear and present danger to urge President Eisenhower to acknowledge Britain as the only atomic power that can stand with the US against the Soviets.\n\n But, on October 7, things start to go wrong at Windscale….\n\nThe core of reactor 1 is heating up.\n\nYou apply a controlled release, which doesn’t work.\n\nYou try again - with more success - but two days later the temperature in the core begins to rise again.\n\nFrom the outside, you can see smoke billowing from the chimneys.\n\nThe worst has happened.\n\nThe core is on fire.\n\nThere is no emergency plan for this: no-one really thought it could happen. There are no plans to evacuate the local population.\n\nSo, you have to get control of the situation.\n\nYou have to fight the fire.But how do you do this in a nuclear power station? In order to put a fire out you need to deprive it of fuel or oxygen or heat. So will you:">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "But you have no tools with which to push the cartridges into the reactor pool. You see a pile of scaffolding left over from the building work and decide to try using those poles. You consctipt volunteers into radiation suits to work in the deadly core, but they just can't work fast enough.\n\nThis won't work. You'll have to think of something else.">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "No. The plant is a (mostly) controlled atomic bomb. Water won’t work.\n\nYou'll just have to think of something else.">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "You ask permission to turn the fans off and just let the fire burn itself out.\n\nThank God. The fire is out.\n\nThe Atomic Energy Authority makes an announcement to the public. They say that the plant overheated, but that it was cooled down with water and that while there was some release of radioactivity the wind is blowing it out over the sea. There is no need to worry, they tell the British public.\n\nThe trouble is that this is not true.">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "As you know, the plant did catch fire, using water didn’t work, and the wind is actually blowing inland. Radioactivity is being deposited over an area of 300 sq miles, covering much of the Lake District and Cumbria. Thank goodness you insisted that those filters – Cockcroft’s Follies – were installed, since they’ve caught around 95% of the radiation. A lot of milk will have to be poured away, and thyroid activity in children will need to be monitored – but it could all have been so much worse.\n\nAs far as Macmillan is concerned, however, the timing couldn’t have been worse – just as he’s pushing for a nuclear based alliance between America and Britain, Britain suffers the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster.\n\nThe enquiry, chaired by William Penney, is a cover-up, blaming the fire on a series of individual errors of judgement. You are shocked that you have been hung out to dry. What will you do next?">></div>
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<div class="text"><<typewriter "As you know, the plant did actually catch fire, using water didn’t work, and the wind is actually blowing inland. Radioactivity is being deposited over an area of 300 sq miles, covering much of the Lake District and Cumbria. If ONLY you’d insisted on installing those filters. They would have caught up to 95% of the radiation.\n\nAs it stands, large areas of the North West and North Wales are contaminated for the next generations. No food can be grown, no-one can safely live there. Lancaster, Preston, Carlisle – even Liverpool and Newcastle are badly affected, as people seek places of safety in their efforts to escape the areas of most harm.\n\nYour specialised knowledge meant that you were evacuated from the area as a matter of priority but since then you have been kept under armed guard. Once the contamination is stabalised, your future is deeply uncertain. Nuclear physicists are not popular people in Britain, anymore.">></div>
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