A study of the movement of radioactive material discharged during the windscale fire in October 1957

Windscale and Kyshtym: a double anniversary

“…Despite the substantially larger release of readily detectable fission products from Kyshtym, both the initial direction of travel of the plume, and the lack of any public announcement of the accident, made it unlikely that the accident would have been detected by monitoring in Europe. The trajectory of the Windscale plume has been the subject of a number of long-range atmospheric dispersion modelling studies (Apsimon et al, 1985;Nelson et al, 2006;Johnson et al, 2007); it would be interesting to see studies of this kind applied to the Kyshtym accident to establish whether any appreciable amount of activity may have reached Europe, and whether it might have been detected at the time if monitoring organisations were alert to the possibility.…”

On the occurrence of radioactive fallout over Norway as a result of the Windscale accident, October 1957

“…d Dunster et al, 1958. begun to stretch northwards under the influence of a frontal system arriving in Europe which brought winds from the southeast and the cloud was carried over Scandinavia on the 15th of October. Useful analysis of the Windscale event with respect to movement of the radioactive cloud in the days after the fire using modern models may be found in Nelson et al (2006) and Johnson et al (2007). : 1956: -1984: Between 1956: and 1984 monitoring stations were in operation in Norway (see Fig.…”

Numerical Modeling of Flow Fields and Dispersion of Passive Pollutants in the Vicinity of the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant

“…On the basis of information on geotropic current fields, they had investigated the longrange atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides released into the atmosphere during the incident at Windscale, Sellafield, England in October 1957. This incident is also discussed in the work of Nelson et al [14] that concerns modeling of the time-integrated air concentrations and ground-level air concentrations of radioactivity for a period of the first few days following the accidental emission using the NAME long-range Lagrangian dispersion model.…”