LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Cancer risk to children of nuclear power station workers

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

16 Feb 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:28

Description

Clayre Gribben reports on demands for new safety measures and improved compensation by workers at British nuclear power plants following a Medical Research Council survey revealing fathers working in Sellafield are passing on leukaemia to their children through damaged sperm. With comment from BNFL Chief Medical Officer Adam Lawson; radiation expert Joseph Rotblat?; Labour Party energy spokesman Frank Dobson.

Contributors

Frank Dobson; Clayre Gribben; Adam Lawson; Joseph Rotblat?

Keywords

Leukaemia; Occupational health and safety; Nuclear energy; Compensation; Surveys; Children (family); Nuclear power stations; Nuclear safety; Medical Research Council; Sellafield; Radiation induced cancers; Radiation protection; Seascale

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