UK Government covered up Windscale reactor blaze (1957) that's caused dozens of deaths & cancers

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367776/Britains-nuclear-inferno-How-Government-covered-reactor-blaze-thats-caused-dozens-deaths-hundreds-cancer-cases.html

As Japan's radiation disaster appals the world, this disturbing dispatch from the Lake District investigates a lethal legacy closer to home...

Down a long country lane at Newbiggin, past the Brown Cow pub and a shop that sells sausages which proudly sport the royal warrant, you finally get to reach the Irish Sea.

The water laps near a weathered wooden signpost pointing out the pleasant walk to the Roman port of Ravensglass. The edge of the estuary is an expanse of sticky mud covered with greenish moss and rotting seaweed.

However, this brown sediment is contaminated with radioactivity from the nearby Sellafield power station.

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