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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)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 266
Themes: Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Energy, Environment, Health policy

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Date Value Title
84 Jul 27 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Sellafield”) [briefing on radiation types and estimated annual discharge] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: Waldegrave minute to MT (“Sellafield Discharges”) [draft written PQ reply] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 5 We Major Environmental Affairs: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Sellafield Discharges”) [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 4 Th Major Environmental Affairs: Rees minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: Heseltine minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
85 Jul 2 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: Whitelaw minute to MT (“BNFL pre-1971 Wastes”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 18 Tu Major Environmental Affairs: UKE Dublin telegram to FCO (“Sellafield: Press comments”) [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 19 We Major Environmental Affairs: Health and Safety Executive letter to No.10 (press notice) [‘Sellafield: HSE Announces Detailed Safety Audit’] [declassified 2014]
86 Feb 19 We Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 record of conversation (1715-1815Z) (MT, Dr Garret FitzGerald) [incidents at Sellafield] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 6 Th Major Environmental Affairs: MT letter to Taoiseach (incidents at Sellafield and radiation pollution in and around Ireland) [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 10 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: Chairman of British Nuclear Fuels plc letter to MT (radioactive pollution at Sellafield) [MT response to Fitzgerald] [declassified 2014]
86 Mar 24 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: Taoiseach letter to MT (radioactive pollution at Sellafield) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 14 Mo Major Environmental Affairs: Barney Hayhoe letter to Whitelaw (“COMARE Report on Sellafield”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 16 We Major Environmental Affairs: Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment report (“The Implications of the New Data on the Releases from Sellafield in the 1950s for the Conclusions of the Report on the Possible Increased Incidence of Cancer in West Cumbria”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 16 We Major Environmental Affairs: Fowler PS letter to Walker PS (“COMARE Report on Sellafield”) [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 17 Th Major Environmental Affairs: Ingham minute to Whitelaw (“Handling of the COMARE Report”) [nuclear power health risks] [declassified 2014]
86 Jul 18 Fr Major Environmental Affairs: No.10 minute to MT (“COMARE”) [investigation of nuclear power health risks] [declassified 2014]