‘Campaigners have begun a legal challenge against the government’s decision to give the Sizewell C nuclear power station the go-ahead amid warnings that UK nuclear plants will be on the frontline of climate breakdown.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Fears that contaminated mud is to be dumped in the Severn estuary are to be heard at the High Court on Tuesday.’
BBC News, 8th March 2022
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‘Britain’s biggest nuclear waste storage and reprocessing site is facing a potential multimillion-pound fine after an employee was exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation.’
The Guardian, 11th May 2018
Source: www.theguardian.com
“Environment Agency takes nuclear firm to court after waste went to landfill instead of Drigg site.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Campaigners have lost a Court of Appeal battle to stop low-level radioactive waste being dumped near their Northamptonshire village.”
BBC News, 18th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A group of villagers who claimed they were testing the government’s commitment to ‘localism’ by challenging a waste company’s right to dump radioactive materials in a nearby landfill site have failed in a high court challenge.”
The Guardian, 3rd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The safety record of Britain’s nuclear industry will be tarnished tomorrow when managers at the Sellafield complex in Cumbria are fined for exposing staff to radioactive contamination.”
The Guardian, 3rd December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The government was last night under pressure from parliament’s most powerful watchdog committee to re-open consultations on the deal which has landed taxpayers with the bill for nuclear accidents and leaks when a private consortium takes over the decommissioning of Sellafield next month.”
The Guardian, 30th October 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The barrister investigating the removal of body parts from Sellafield workers and those at other nuclear plants over 30 years said yesterday that he expected the number of cases would rise beyond the 65 already disclosed by BNFL.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2007
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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