Company Fined for not Registering Radioactive Material, and then Losing it

BBGR Limited was yesterday been fined £3,000 by magistrates who heard how it failed to register radioactive material, some of which was later lost at its Salford premises.

BBGR Limited makes lenses for spectacles and uses a radioactive source, polonium 210, on its production line. Such material should be registered under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993, but the fact that it was unregistered only came to light when a source went missing.

Nick Webb, prosecuting for the Agency, told the C... (184 more words)

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