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Thirty-five or so years after the Windscale accident its exact initiating cause remains uncertain, as appeared from Chapter 8. More, and conclusive, evidence may be found when the planned dismantling of the two piles is completed. The accident was almost certainly inevitable. It was undoubtedly salutary, and its ill-effects were very much less than they might have been. It was, fortuitously, timely. It marked the end of an era.
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M. Gowing, Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy 1945–1952 (Macmillan 1974), vol. 1, p. 229.
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Arnold, L. (1992). Postscript. In: Windscale 1957. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10582-3_10
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