Keywords: radiation, cobalt-60, radiotherapy machine, public health,

£400,000 toll for radioactive road trip

Prosecutions and Claims |
01.03.2006

AEA Technology (AEAT) has been ordered to pay a total of more than £400, 000 in fines and costs after employees drove a container 130 miles across northern England, leaking rays that would have caused radiation burns within minutes to anyone exposed.

Oxfordshire-based AEAT, a pri ...

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