March 17, 2014

SELLAFIELD WORKERS STAY HOME FRIDAY AFTER RADON SETS OFF MONITORS

By ExchangeMonitor

After Sellafield’s radiation monitoring system detected elevated levels Thursday night, non-essential workers were told to stay home Friday at the U.K. site. “Overnight the monitoring system initially indicated elevated levels of activity. Following investigation and analysis, we can now confirm these levels to be naturally occurring background radon,” according to a statement Friday from Sellafield Limited, the site license company. Standard weekend operations continued and staff was due back today on the normal schedule.

Sellafield, Ltd., added: “All of our plants and storage facilities were quickly confirmed as operating normally, and we were always confident that the issue posed no risk to the workforce or public because the levels being detected, whilst above background radiation levels, were still low. This view was reinforced by the fact that none of our other installed monitors were picking up any kind of increased levels – however, we take such issues so seriously that we investigated fully to confirm that everything was okay.”

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