Report on Sellafield health risks

Title

Report on Sellafield health risks

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

2 Mar 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:05:10

Description

Kevin Murphy reports on the health risks posed by Sellafield nuclear power station. He speaks to Joan King, widow of Sellafield process worker Harry King who contracted fatal health problems after plutonium contamination at work in 1961. She describes her late husband’s symptoms.

Contributors

Kevin Murphy; Joan King

Keywords

Deaths; Nuclear power stations; Symptoms; Nuclear safety; Illness; Radiation; Sellafield; Nuclear accidents; Radiation induced cancers; Harry King; British Nuclear Fuels

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