Windscale is the old name of a nuclear site on the northwest coast of England, in Cumbria. It is now called Sellafield. The name matters for one reason: in October 1957 a fire broke out in one of the reactors there and released radioactive material over the surrounding countryside — the Windscale fire, the worst nuclear accident Britain has had. Milk from farms nearby had to be thrown away for weeks. After that, the name carried the accident with it, and when the site was reorganised in the 1980s the whole place became 'Sellafield'. Many British people believe the renaming was partly to leave the bad name behind, and the site's owners have always been vague about that. So when you meet 'Windscale' in English, you are almost always reading about history, about the 1957 fire, or about nuclear power arguments — it is not a place anybody sends letters to today. This is a proper noun: capital W, no 'the' in front of it. It sits in the same mental drawer as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island for British readers, though the fire was far smaller than Chernobyl.

溫斯凱（英格蘭西北部核electricity廠舊名，今稱塞拉菲爾德 Sellafield；1957 年溫斯凱大火為英國最嚴重核事故）