CCTV nuclear leak missed for 3 months

NW Evening Mail Published on 28/05/2005

A leak which closed Sellafield’s Thorp plant has found nuclear fuel was seeping from a fractured pipe for three months before it was detected. (leak = 90,000 litres, or half an Olympic swimming pool)

British Nuclear Group has ordered improved testing and maintenance of instruments which should have warned that the mixture of spent uranium and plutonium fuel dissolved in acid was going missing.

Mr Snelson said he was disappointed that the leak, discovered by a CCTV camera on April 19, had not been seen sooner.

....... which shows that CCTV is as good as the folks watching .. or not as the case may be.