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Windscale Fire, United Kingdom (1957)
A graphite fire in an air-cooled plutonium production reactor in Cumberland (now Sellafield) released radioactive iodine-131 and polonium-210 across the UK and northern Europe. An estimated 240 cancer cases resulted, and 2 million liters of contaminated milk were dumped.
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