{"id":83143,"date":"2017-08-01T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5641e3ff4def02dcb8263dd37196d042"},"modified":"2017-08-01T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:36:00","slug":"news-story-sellafield-incident-report-powder-spillage-14-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83143","title":{"rendered":"News story: Sellafield incident report &#8211; powder spillage (14 June 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>While carrying out analysis work in a Sellafield site laboratory, a worker spilled approximately 1kg of depleted uranium trioxide powder while moving a container.<\/p>\n<p>The material is not harmful unless ingested or inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>The correct safety procedures were followed and the immediate area was evacuated before returning to normal service on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Health checks confirmed the worker suffered no ill effects.<\/p>\n<p>An internal investigation is being carried out.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been rated 1 (anomaly) on the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www-ns.iaea.org\/tech-areas\/emergency\/ines.asp\">International Nuclear Events Scale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sellafield is regulated by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onr.org.uk\/sellafield-dfw.htm\">Office for Nuclear Regulation<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/environment-agency\">Environment Agency<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sellafieldsites.com\/press-office\/incident-reports\/\">See details of incidents at Sellafield before 1 August 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details of an incident at Sellafield on 14 June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}