http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire Was just reading about this the other night... During Britain's worst

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire Was just reading about this the other night... During Britain's worst nuclear accident, reactor manager Tom Tuohy climbed on top of the burning reactor to examine it several times during the incident. "Tom Tuohy then ordered everyone out of the reactor building except himself and the Fire Chief in order to shut off all cooling and ventilating air entering the reactor. Tuohy then climbed up several times and reported watching the flames leaping from the discharge face slowly dying away." He lived to the age of 90...