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and continuing witness history's week-long look at environmental milestones,

today we go back to 1957 and Britain's worst nuclear accident,

which happened at a nuclear plant in the north of England.

In 2011, Chris Valent spoke to two people who were working at the plant at the time.

It's the 10th of October, 1957. John Harris, a young researcher, is on his way to work at the

wind-scale nuclear plant in northwest England. I used to go in in the morning on the

factory bus as we all did. We were going in and in the

We all did and we were going in and as you come within about a mile of the plant

You can see those two tall sort of strange looking chimneys standing up with a little sort of head on the top. The strange thing

was somebody said, hey, there's something odd going on because you could see a very fine

drift of sort of blue smoke, or I was a blue pale colored smoke just drifting off the

top of one of these 400 feet tall chimneys now the point was these were

chimneys and you should never be able to see anything

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