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Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

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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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Status: Released

Released Date: 2007-10-08

Runtime: 88 mins

Director: Sarah Aspinall

Spoken language: English

Genres: Documentary

Original title: Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster

Production Companies: BBC

Production Countries: United Kingdom

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