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[http://www.ukaea.org.uk/ '''United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority'''](UKAEA) was established in 1954 by the UK Government to oversee the country's nuclear research programme and development of the industry. In 1956 Calder Hall was commissioned by the [[UKAEA]] turning UK into "the first country in the world to adopt nuclear power on an industrial and commercial scale". In 1957 after a fire at Windscale, a nuclear complex near Calder Hall, which reportedly caused "32 deaths and 260 cases of cancer" from the leaked radiation, UKAEA changed its name to Sellafield. In 1971 [[BNFL]], the authority's production arm, split off from the UKAEA. (''Independent on Sunday'', November 27, 2005)  
 
[http://www.ukaea.org.uk/ '''United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority'''](UKAEA) was established in 1954 by the UK Government to oversee the country's nuclear research programme and development of the industry. In 1956 Calder Hall was commissioned by the [[UKAEA]] turning UK into "the first country in the world to adopt nuclear power on an industrial and commercial scale". In 1957 after a fire at Windscale, a nuclear complex near Calder Hall, which reportedly caused "32 deaths and 260 cases of cancer" from the leaked radiation, UKAEA changed its name to Sellafield. In 1971 [[BNFL]], the authority's production arm, split off from the UKAEA. (''Independent on Sunday'', November 27, 2005)  

Revision as of 12:52, 14 February 2006


United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority(UKAEA) was established in 1954 by the UK Government to oversee the country's nuclear research programme and development of the industry. In 1956 Calder Hall was commissioned by the UKAEA turning UK into "the first country in the world to adopt nuclear power on an industrial and commercial scale". In 1957 after a fire at Windscale, a nuclear complex near Calder Hall, which reportedly caused "32 deaths and 260 cases of cancer" from the leaked radiation, UKAEA changed its name to Sellafield. In 1971 BNFL, the authority's production arm, split off from the UKAEA. (Independent on Sunday, November 27, 2005)

UKAEA currently oversees five of the UK's 20 nuclear sites. Since April 2005, it has worked under contract to the government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority to decommission old nuclear plants. According to the Guardian, it has undertaken a £8bn project to dismantle 26 research reactors and bury nuclear waste. (The Guardian, August 9, 2005)

In 2005, a cementation plant at Dounreay, a UKAEA facility, was closed after the spillage of hazardous, dissolved spent fuel and an investigation started. According to the times, "the discovery of nuclear particles on neighbouring beaches has led to calls for a full public inquiry into the scale of pollution at the site, while the UKAEA has been accused of a cover-up". The prototype fast reactor at Dounreay was already shut down in 1994. (The Times, October 18, 2005) This was the second scare in less than a year to hit the plant. According to the Daily Mail, a Dounreay spokesman "confirmed that eight workers were being tested for suspected plutonium intake". The lab was already shut down the previous year "following a similar alarm involving 15 workers...In August, UKAEA started refresher courses following a number of radiation scares, during which contamination was detected on five workers in a week." (Daily Mail, October 17, 2005)

UKAEA has commissioned the services of the following PR companies:

Key Personnel

Chief Executive Dipesh Shah
Chairman Barbara Thomas Judge
Director, Major Projects & Engineering Colin Bayliss
Director, Safety & Assurance John Crofts
Chief Financial Officer Andrew Jackson

John Collier was a former Chairman of UKAEA.

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