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PREM19/1741
Environemntal Affairs (Report on leak at Windscale: policy towards Sellafield; environmental pollution; report on incidence of cancer in west Cumbria; report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 266
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80 Jul 28 Mon Environmental Affairs: Howell minute to MT (report by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate on the leak at Windscale) [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 7 Tue Environmental Affairs: Howell PS letter to No.10 (Report on Safety at Windscale) [declassified 2014]
81 Oct 9 Fri Environmental Affairs: Lawson PS letter to No.10 (“Incident at BNFL Sellafield (Windscale)”) [declassified 2014]
84 May 31 Thu Environmental Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [options for restoring public confidence] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 4 Mon Environmental Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [making Sellafield “a better and safer plant” to safeguard employment] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 7 Thu Environmental Affairs: Rees minute to MT (pollution discharge in Sellafield) [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 11 Mon Environmental Affairs: Howe letter to MT (“Sellafield”) [public confidence] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 20 Wed Environmental Affairs: Heseltine minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [concern about repercussions of compensation offer] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 20 Wed Environmental Affairs: Walker minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 16 Mon Environmental Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Barclay (“The Black Report”) [“imprecise and not at all reassuring”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 17 Tue Environmental Affairs: Walker minute to MT (implications of the Black report on leukaemia in Sellafield) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 19 Thu Environmental Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (“Sellafield: The Black Report”) [report on H Committee discussion] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fri Environmental Affairs: Jenkin minute to MT (“Environmental Pollution: Sellafield) [recommendations] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fri Environmental Affairs: Walker letter to Jenkin (Sellafield discharges and nuclear waste disposal policy) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 20 Fri Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [options for reducing the level of discharges] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mon Environmental Affairs: Jenkin PS briefing for MT (“Sellafield”) [reduction of discharges] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mon Environmental Affairs: Tebbit minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [Assisted Area status and effect on tourism] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 23 Mon Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“Sellafield Discharges”) [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 24 Tue Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jenkin, Whitelaw, Heseltine, Walker, Rees, King, Baker, Waldegrave etc.) [“nuclear issues: Sellafield and radioactive waste disposal”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 24 Tue Environmental Affairs: No.10 internal minute: Policy Unit to Barclay (“Sellafield”) [proposed measures against pollution] [declassified 2014]