Sellafield faces unlimited fine over health and safety breach

The operator of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria has pleaded guilty to breaching safety regulations over a radioactive leak.

British Nuclear Group Sellafield (BNGSL) now faces an unlimited fine after a criminal hearing today (8 June).

At Whitehaven Magistrates Court the company admitted three breaches of the Sellafield site licence conditions.

The conditions of the Nuclear Installations Act (1965) require BNG, as Thorp’s operators, to make and comply with wri... (255 more words)

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