Nuclear waste truck leaked lethal dosage
United Press International - NewsTrack - Nuclear waste truck leaked lethal dosage: "Nuclear waste truck leaked lethal dosage
LEEDS, England, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A container of radioactive waste emitted a beam of deadly radiation during a journey to a British disposal site, witnesses said in a court hearing.
The company involved in the incident, AEA Technology, faces sentencing on Monday.
The container traveled by truck in March 2002 from Cookridge Hospital in Leeds to the Windscale waste disposal site in Cumbria. A Windscale employee discovered a high level of background radiation and found that a plug had been left off the container.
Luckily, the container was positioned so that the beam of radiation was pointing down towards the ground, the Times of London reported. The radiation was so intense that anyone with 330 yards of the container who was in the line of fire would have received a lethal dose of cobalt 60-gamma rays, high enough to kill within two hours.
AEA Technology, a private company spun off from the public United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, has admitted six violations of regulations.
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LEEDS, England, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A container of radioactive waste emitted a beam of deadly radiation during a journey to a British disposal site, witnesses said in a court hearing.
The company involved in the incident, AEA Technology, faces sentencing on Monday.
The container traveled by truck in March 2002 from Cookridge Hospital in Leeds to the Windscale waste disposal site in Cumbria. A Windscale employee discovered a high level of background radiation and found that a plug had been left off the container.
Luckily, the container was positioned so that the beam of radiation was pointing down towards the ground, the Times of London reported. The radiation was so intense that anyone with 330 yards of the container who was in the line of fire would have received a lethal dose of cobalt 60-gamma rays, high enough to kill within two hours.
AEA Technology, a private company spun off from the public United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, has admitted six violations of regulations.
© Copyright 2006 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved"
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