Sellafield reprocessing facility due in court over radiation exposures

Sellafield company will be sentenced on Friday, August 21, 2009 for two worker exposures to which they admitted guilt in 2007. One worker, who was jailed for two years as a whistleblower, died of radiation related illness in July before receiving any compensation. Citizens' groups will be attending the sentencing and are asking that the compensation sheme, started by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) in the 1970's, be expanded to the wider public, claiming that worker exposures are just the "tip of a whole flotilla of icebergs."