Windscale accident papers released

Title

Windscale accident papers released

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

1 Jan 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:05:21

Description

Lindsay Taylor reports on the official release of secret papers held at the public record office in Kew under the thirty-year rule, revealing that the Penny Report into the Windscale nuclear plant fire in 1957 was censored. According to the documents, UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ordered that the report should be re-written after warnings it would damage public confidence in the nuclear industry. Includes reading of comments of Sir Frederick Brundett, MOD; interview with Dr John Gittus, Atomic Energy Authority.

Contributors

Lindsay Taylor; Frederick Brundrett; John Gittus

Keywords

Reports; Censorship; Nuclear energy; Nuclear power stations; Nuclear safety; Harold Macmillan; MOD; Windscale; Nuclear industry; Nuclear accidents; Penny Report; Atomic Energy Authority

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