Researching Tom Tuohy
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 49 people with the Tuohy surname? In that year Tuohy was ranked number 3530 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Tom means "Form of THOMAS. a twin" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Tom Tuohy on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Tom Tuohy and the Tuohy Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 523 people with the Tuohy surname in the UK? Tuohy is now ranked number 3548 for popularity in the UK. |
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Some Famous People called Tom Tuohy
Tom Tuohy
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.
Tuohy was born in Wallsend and educated at St Cuthbert's High School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Reading University.
During World War II he worked for the Royal Ordnance as a chemist, and in 1946 joined the nuclear industry, becoming deputy general manager of Windscale in 1957.
On 10 October 1957 his boss phoned him at home where he was nursing a family sick with flu, saying: "Come at once. Pile number one is on fire." Leaving his wife and two children, he told them to stay indoors and keep all the windows closed. At the factory he discarded his radiation recording badge, so that no one could tell him that he had exceeded permitted radiation dose limits, and made repeated inspections directly into the 80 ft pile. Over the next few hours he was instrumental in directing the efforts which eventually brought the blaze under control. The pile structure survives to this day, too radioactive for decommissioning to be completed until 2037.
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