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50th anniversary of Windscale fire at Sellafield will be marked by campaigners
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Anti nuclear campaigners are preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of the Windscale fire this week.
The accident on what is now known as Sellafield was one of the worst in the history of the nuclear industry.
At one time it was thought it might have been the cause of a cluster of Downs Syndrome children born to a group of women who had been students at a Dundalk school in 1957.
Professor Peter Mitchell from UCD has said however that weather records of the time show the radioactive cloud from the fire headed eastwards while other records also showed no increase in radioactivity here.
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