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There were 97 incidents between July 2012 and July 2013 where parts of the site had too few workers on shift

Independent - Samuel Osborne,

“If there is a fire there it could generate a plume of radiological waste that will go across Western Europe," he told the programme.

He also said areas of Sellafield, which reprocesses and stores nearly all the the UK's nuclear waste, often didn't have enough staff on duty to meet minimum safety levels.

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Minimum staff levels are set for both teams of workers and whole factories and vary across the site. In a processing plant of 60 people, the minimum safe manning level may be just six workers.

Sellafield’s own documents say “any deviation from the safe minimum manning levels is not acceptable”.

However, there were 97 incidents between July 2012 and July 2013 where parts of the site had too few workers on shift, according to figures obtained by Panorama....

Continue reading at... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sellafield-cumbria-nuclear-accident-whistleblower-panorama-cumbria-investigation-radioactive-a7226991.html

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