Windscale Fire Milk Bottle

Origin
The Windscale Fire was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain’s history, ranking a five out of seven severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It was quickly built for Britain’s atomic bomb project, with one of the cores from the nuclear reactor at Windscale catching on fire and releasing radiation into the surrounding area.

The cause for unease at the time was the release of iodine-131, which could lead to thyroid cancer. They were afraid it would get into the milk supply and at dangerous amounts. So for about a month, milk from 500 square miles was diluted, destroyed and dumped into the sea. The accident resulted in over 200 additional cancer cases. But, a study showed that those directly involved with cleanup did not show anything that indicated negative long term health effects.

Effects
The milk bottle has the ability to absorb any amount of radiation near it, big or small. The only problem with it is that it releases the radiation that it’s soaked up at any person in five feet of it. For this reason, it is on permanent stay in solitary confinement in an isolated corner of the radiation section. It is housed behind a radiation absorbent barrier with warning signs and the bottles’ identification card printed to the size of a poster.