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3. Ninth graphite annealing and the accident of October 10, 1957
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Monday, October 07, 1957
01 h 13 min: Windscale No. 1 stack and blowers shut down to implement the empirical process for releasing the Wigner energy accumulated in the graphite stack. The operating time of the stack since the last shutdown was probably the highest ever ("40,000 MWd).
19 h 25 min: divergence of the stack, air...
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References
- (1) - Accident at Windscale No 1 Pile on 10 th Octo- ber, 1957 : - — Rapport de synthèse de la commission d'enquête présenté au Parlement par le Premier ministre, nov. 1957 ; — UKAEA Committee of Inquiry into the Windscale Accident, oct. 1957. Rapport technique complet, déclassifié en janv. 1988....
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