HC Deb 17 December 1993 vol 234 cc1010-1W
Mr. Dafis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is her estimate of the annual number of deaths which will result from radioactive discharges from the operation of THORP.

Mr. Sackville

No such estimates have been made. The National Radiological Protection Board—NRPB—has made an assessment of the collective radiation doses from discharges at Sellafield. The results of the NRPB work confirm that the discharges from the THORP plant will result in radiation doses much lower than natural background radiation levels. It has described the annual attributable risk to individuals in the world population as "vanishingly small".

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