In this video we look at how one piece of good design saved a nation from NUCLEAR DISASTER
As depicted on the hit HBO show Chernobyl, the nuclear disaster is one of the defining moments of the 20th century and leavs Pripyat abandoned to this day. However 30 years Earlier there was almost a similar disaster at the Windscale powerplant in the united kingdom that has gone down as one of the worlds worst nuclear indidents. The story begins in the middle of a nuclear arms race and the desperation of nations to aquire their own nuclear bomb. and the building of the UK's first nuclear power station

The unique filters that john cockloft insisted were designed and installed at the top of the chimneys were estimated to have caught 95% of the radioactive material that was blown up the chimney. The 5% of nuclear that was released from wind scale was 1000 times lower than the total released by Chernobyl. That may not sound like a lot but For comparison the fukushima incident was just 18% of Chernobyl’s releases. If the filters had not been installed and 100% of the nuclear material had been discharged, great Britain would look like a very different place today, especially as an easterly wind was blowing at the time of the incident, transporting radioactive material across mainland England. entre swathes of land would have become an un-inhabitable nuclear wasteland. And caused an unknown number of fatalities. The fallout would have then spread on to mainland Europe also causing untold havoc and ruining Britain’s relationship with her neighbours.

Cockrofts follies prevented a nuclear catastrophe, the incident was a wakeup call and bought home the true danger that working with nuclear material brings. The lessons learnt at wind scale have echoed through the world’s nuclear industry, they have influenced the design of countless power stations safety protocols and failsafe systems. helping to make nuclear power by far the safest electrical generation method in the world. And I thought it was stressful designing a logo with a tight deadline!

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