Windscale fire

major nuclear accident in the UK
Event conflagration Q649682
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Windscale fire

Summary

Windscale fire is a conflagration[1]. It ranks in the top 0.76% of conflagration entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,798 views/month, #1 of 132).[2]

Key Facts

  • Windscale fire is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • Windscale fire's image is recorded as Storm Clouds over Sellafield - geograph.org.uk - 330062.jpg[4].
  • Windscale fire's instance of is recorded as conflagration[5].
  • Windscale fire's instance of is recorded as nuclear accident[6].
  • Windscale fire's location is recorded as Windscale Piles[7].
  • Windscale fire's point in time is recorded as +1957-10-10T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Windscale fire's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 54.424861111111, 'lon': -3.5}[9].
  • Windscale fire's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04zv88[10].
  • Windscale fire's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Windscale-fire[11].
  • Windscale fire's International Nuclear Event Scale is recorded as INES level 5 event[12].
  • Windscale fire's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as Windscale-ulykken[13].
  • Windscale fire's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["HistoricalEvent", "WindscaleFire"][14].
  • Windscale fire's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 75085[15].

Why It Matters

Windscale fire ranks in the top 0.76% of conflagration entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,798 views/month, #1 of 132).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_windscale-fire_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Windscale fire}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/windscale-fire}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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