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WITH top gongs dished out to odd entertainers and dubious business folk, Tom Tuohy was a real hero, who never received any major official honour for averting a potentially horrific British nuclear disaster.
Tuohy, who has died, aged 90, acted selflessly to douse a reactor fire in the worst accident in British atomic history, in October, 1957, while deputy works manager at Windscale plutonium production plant (now Sellafield). A senior hands-on manager who led from the front, he modestly recalled last year: "I never thought about my own safety. There were things I could do, and I got on and did them."See the full content of this document
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Obituary: Tom Tuohy
He started working in the atomic industry after the war as a health physics manager, ...
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