Cancer incidence at Sellafield

Risks to Ireland from incidents at Sellafield.

Germline minisatellite mutations in workers occupationally exposed to radiation at the Sellafield nuclear facility.

Germline minisatellite mutation rates were investigated in male workers occupationally exposed to radiation at the Sellafield nuclear facility. DNA samples from 160 families with 255 offspring were analysed for mutations at eight hypervariable minisatellite loci (B6.7, CEB1, CEB15, CEB25, CEB36, MS1, MS31, MS32) by Southern hybridisation. No significant difference was observed between the pater...

Mortality of workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels.

The mortality of all 14,327 people who were known to have been employed at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels at any time between the opening of the site in 1947 and 31 December 1975 was studied up to the end of 1983. The vital state of 96% of the workers was traced satisfactorily and 2277 were found to have died, 572 (25%) from cancer. On average the workers suffered a mortality fro...

Incidence of brain metastasis at initial presentation of lung cancer.

BACKGROUND No reliable estimates are available on the incidence of brain metastasis (BM) in cancer patients. This information is valuable for planning patient care and developing measures that may prevent or decrease the likelihood of metastatic brain disease. METHODS We report the first population-based analysis on BM incidence at cancer diagnosis using the Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) and...

The environmental impact of the Sellafield discharges

Low-level liquid radioactive wastes from the British Nuclear Fuels pcl (BNFL) Sellafield establishment (formerly known as the Windscale and Calder Works) have been discharged into the north-eastern Irish Sea since operations began in the early 1950s. Although, at first, the major source of these discharges was the processing of nuclear fuel for the production of nuclear weapons, operations sinc...