High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Tuohy CBE (7 November 1917 – 12 March 2008), was deputy to the general manager at the Windscale nuclear facility when a major fire erupted on 10 October 1957. He was the leading participant in efforts to put out the fire which was emitting radioactive contamination into the air, and so played a key role in minimising Britain`s worst nuclear disaster.