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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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