Windscale 1957

Windscale 1957
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781349105823
ISBN-13 : 1349105821
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Book Synopsis Windscale 1957 by : Lorna Arnold

Download or read book Windscale 1957 written by Lorna Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to set the 1957 Windscale accident in its historical context in the immediate post-war period and the early days of the Cold War, to describe the event and its consequences and to evaluate it from the vantage point of 1990.


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