UK releases report of atomic leaks

The Observer : More than 1,767 safety incidents have occurred at nuclear power plants in the UK between 2001-08 according to a report written by the government’s chief nuclear inspector, Mike Weightman of the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), and released under the UK’s Freedom of Information Act .About half were subsequently judged by inspectors as serious enough “to have had the potential to challenge a nuclear safety system”. They were “across all areas of existing nuclear plant”, including Sellafield in Cumbria and Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire, says Weightman.