§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Energy (1) if he will now make available for independent assessment all the details of the incidents at Windscale between October 1979 and January 1980 of increased radioactivity in ground water, the incidents on the week of 24 to 30 August 1980 involving a worker receiving radiation in doses exceeding permissible levels, the incident on 16 April 1981 involving a health physics monitor and the incident involving the radioactive contamination of two process workers and a fitter towards the end of December 1980 and all the documents relating to subsequent inquiries;
(2) if he will now make available for independent assessment all the details of the incidents at Sellafield on 2 September 1981 involving plutonium contamination on 18 June 1981 involving radioactive contamination, on 13 November 1984 of reported information of the incident of radioactive contamination reported to the nuclear installations inspectorate, and during the month of July 1981 at the Magnox fuel decanning plant at Sellafield involving a radiation monitoring film and all the documents relating to subsequent inquiries;
6W(3) if he will now make available for independent assessment all the details of the incidents involving radioactive or plutonium contamination of workers at Windscale on 8 February 1980, on 6 May 1980, between 6 and 12 January 1980, on 30 January 1980, 14 February 1980, 8 February 1980, on 23 February 1980, 15 February 1980, on 29 April 1980, 16 September 1980, 18 July 1980, 19 August 1980, 15 December 1980, 4 November 1980, 27 March 1981, 26 March 1981 and 10 July 1980 and all the documents relating to subsequent inquiries.
§ Mr. GoodladThese incidents were independently assessed at the time by Her Majesty's nuclear installations inspectorate of the Health and Safety Executive. Descriptions of the incidents and the results of investigations which were carried out are given in the HSE's quarterly statements of nuclear incidents for the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 1980, the first, second, third and fourth quarters of 1981, and fourth quarter of 1984, copies of which are in the Library of the House.