Talk:Windscale Piles

A fact from Windscale Piles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 September 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that while the filters added to the chimneys of the Windscale Piles (pictured) were mocked as "Cockcroft's Follies", they prevented what might have been a disastrous radioactive accident? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2018/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Windscale Piles.

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or could redirect to Windscale_fire#Windscale_Piles - need to merge into one. - Rod57 (talk) 18:36, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Under 'Construction; Fuel' it is stated that 700 ft of Chimney No. 1 had already been built before filters were deemed necessary. However, the chimneys were only 410 ft tall. Could the first figure be corrected please? PhilUK (talk) 17:16, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

 – Corrected typo. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:19, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]