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An inquiry into the removal of body tissue from dead Sellafield nuclear workers can examine the patients' medical records, a judge has ruled. Michael Redfern QC is heading a public inquiry into why samples were taken between 1962 and 1992 and whether next of kin were informed.
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SCIENTISTS have pinpointed seven new radioactive hotspots on a public beach in Fife, it emerged yesterday. Close to the site of a former Second World War airfield, Dalgety Bay has long been suspected of being contaminated by parts from planes which were dismantled prior to parts of the coastline being reclaimed. Dangerous material such as radium was used to coat the luminous dials of wartime aircraft so that they could be read at night.
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The Sellafield body parts inquiry has hit a major legal hitch after a doctor suggested his patients’ medical records should remain confidential – even though they are dead. Michael Redfern QC is leading an inquiry into claims organs and tissue were secretly removed from workers at Sellafield and other nuclear plants without the knowledge of bereaved loved ones.
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An inquiry into the removal of body tissue from Sellafield nuclear workers has been hit by concerns about the medical records of dead patients. Michael Redfern QC is heading a public inquiry into why samples were taken between 1962 and 1992 and whether next of kin were informed.
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THE final defuelling of one of the reactors at Chapelcross began last week. The first fuel element was removed from the core of Reactor 1, beginning the active commissioning of the newly-upgraded fuel route. About 40,000 fuel elements will be systematically removed from all four reactors and dispatched for reprocessing at the Sellafield site in west Cumbria.
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Thousands of containers of lethal nuclear waste are likely to fail before being safely sealed away underground, a devastating official report concludes. The unpublicised report is by the Environment Agency, which has to approve any proposals for getting rid of the waste that remains deadly for tens of thousands of years.
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A GROUP of the most eminent experts in highly radioactive work from around the world are flying in to Cumbria for a two-day conference at Sellafield. The conference will be held at the newly-created National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL). More than 50 delegates are expected from around Europe, the US, Japan and South Africa for the event – being staged on September 22 and 23 – which also includes a tour of the world-class facilities at the new NNL.
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Radioactive waste could be stored in a former opencast mine near Whitehaven. Recycling and waste management firm Sita UK said it is in discussions with Copeland Council about buying the site at Keekle Head. The company wants to re-use the derelict site for the "disposal of very low level radioactive construction and demolition wastes from Sellafield".
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Top-secret shipments from Sellafield of weapons-ready plutonium through British waters have been stopped. The Department for Transport has taken "regulatory action" to prohibit the shipments to Normandy on a ferry with few safety or security features.
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A consortium, including the UK's Amec, has been named as the government's preferred choice to clean up and run the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria. The UK's Amec, URS's Washington Division of the US, and France's Areva have been shortlisted for the £1.3bn-a-year contract.
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It will take over 100 years before the toxic nuclear site at Sellafield is safe, it has been revealed. A Westminster report claims that the UK's largest atomic power-station, overlooking the Irish Sea, won't be completely clean until 2120.
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THE half-life of official opposition to nuclear power in Britain has been very short. In its first energy white paper in 2003, the government was disdainful, devoting most of its time to wind and solar power. By 2006, the talk had shifted to replacing Britain’s existing capacity. In January 2008, John Hutton, the business secretary, upped the ante again, calling for a big expansion of nuclear power.
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Proposals to deal with Britain's legacy of nuclear waste are being published by the government. Video commentary
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SELLAFIELD HAS the world's biggest stockpile of plutonium and uranium and storage tanks contain highly volatile radioactive waste "more dangerous" than the Chernobyl reactor, according to a study published today. The study, Voodoo Economics and the Doomed Nuclear Renaissance, also says the British government is now unlikely to meet its 1998 commitment under the Ospar Convention to reduce "close to zero" Sellafield's radioactive discharges into the Irish Sea by 2020.
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A MAJOR development to import and export radioactive waste in and out of Sellafield could create 105 new jobs. A0163742 NUCLEAR FEARS: Martin Forwood of CORE. Main picture: Sellafield REF: 01637542 The building would be used for surface storage of intermediate level waste before it is exported to a final permanent repository, when one is built.
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THE first of a number of shipments of Sellafield plutonium sailed from the Port of Workington last weekend on board the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s ship Atlantic Osprey. The secretive night shipment, already delayed by two months because its original departure date was leaked in advance to the press, was accompanied by what one local resident described as ‘over the top, wall-to-wall security’ which sealed off the docks.
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When the phone rang, Tom Tuohy was at home, nursing his wife and two children who were sick with flu. It was the evening of October 10 1957, and 39-year-old Tom was deputy general manager at the Windscale and Calder works, which in later years became known worldwide as Sellafield.
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