Nuclear decommissioning company fined over safety breaches led to radiation exposure.
UK trade magazine reports that the company that runs the Sellafield decommissioning has been fined £75,000 and ordered to pay £26,100 in costs after two workers were exposed to radiation.
The contractors were drilling through a concrete floor contaminated with plutonium in a waste facility that Sellafield was converting into offices when the July 2007 incident occurred.
Carlisle Crown Court was told that the men were exposed to higher than anticipated levels of radiation, though neither workers suffered any immediate illness or injury.
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