The worst nuclear accident in the UK was a fire at Windscale in October 1957.
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- The Alternative Guide to Sellafield An alternative view to the official one about the 1957 fire, reprocessing, plutonium and other matters at the Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear reprocessing plant in West Cumbria.
- Windscale Nuclear Incident From the Virtual Nuclear Tourist.
- Windscale fire Wikipedia summarises those events of October 1957.
- The Windscale reactor accident—50 years on By Richard Wakeford, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radiological Protection, writing in 2007.