in nuclear power stations in Britain were detected safety problems, for the first time described in obtained a secret report by an observer who shows more than 1,750 losses, failures or other "events" over the past seven years . The devastating document, written by the chief nuclear inspector of the government, Mike Weightman (see photo), and released under the Freedom of Information Act , which raises serious questions about the dangers of expanding the industry with a new generation of atomic plants. The manager admitted that the largest plant, Sellafield, was finally stopped the radiation leak, many people believe in progress for 50 years. The report shows that between 2001-08 there were 1,767 accidents on the safety of nuclear installations in Great Britain. Weightman, Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), says: - " About half were considered serious enough by the inspectors for having had the opportunity to challenge a nuclear safety system. They were in all areas of existing nuclear facilities, including Sellafield (in Cumbria), Aldermaston and Burghfield (Berkshire). In an incident at Sizewell A in Suffolk, in January 2007 , for cooling water, there was a leak from a pond of highly radioactive spent fuel . The operator was not prosecuted for violation of safety rules in part because the resources were "stretched", according to the official investigation NII. In May 2007 a manhole at Dounreay in northern Scotland was found to be contaminated with plutonium . A series of other incidents occurred at Sellafield, including inconvenience to a door that was intended to provide protection from highly radioactive waste in September 2008, and the contamination of five workers at a plutonium fuel plant in January 2007 . A spokesman for Sellafield confirmed last night that he successfully blocked the infiltration of fluid from a crack in one of the four tanks to treat waste effluent was used before it was discharged into the Irish Sea . Some local residents say that started half a century ago. Many nuclear inspectors in the UK like-minded environmentalists, the 'nuclear engineer John Large says: " Some of these incidents were potentially disastrous. We have already shown that their personal crises affect their regulation of nuclear safety. Without a strong and effective regulation, the risk is a major release of radioactivity increased .
Source: guardian.co.uk /
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