Days 12-18. Epidemiology; the principles and the various types of studies, prior to Gardner, the Gardner case control study, A Bomb data and studies since Gardner. Start of the epidemiological section where the Plaintiff’s experts were heard before the Defendants. with Professor Stephen James Evans, a medical statistician from the London Hospital Medical College giving … [Continue Reading]
Down Memory Lane –25th Anniversary of 1992 Leukaemia High Court Case. Days 2-5
“BNFL admitted to underestimating occupational radiation doses in company records, including those of men who had worked on the exposed top of the Sellafield plutonium piles. When these errors were discovered they did not follow the advice of their Head of Health and Safety and put a note in the records to that effect. They … [Continue Reading]
Down Memory Lane. 25th Anniversary of Leukaemia High Court Case (26/10/92)
Over the coming months, in remembering this epic and historic case in the London High Court when West Cumbrian families sued Sellafield over cancers in children of radiation workers, CORE will be publishing the 1992/93 daily court transcripts.
The Kinlen virus hypothesis, “arisen to explain away the risks from radiation” ?
My trip down memory lane….. an elusive virus, dodgy radioactive discharges, and an Emperor who changed his clothes. The Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group and other cancer charities united on World Cancer Day. The event brought back memories of not only having to face childhood leukaemia within our families, but also the ongoing battle to find out what … [Continue Reading]
An Examination of Corporate Manipulation and Vested Interest in Public Health
Due for publication early next year – a long awaited report, to which CORE has contributed, on the fight between corporate profit and public health corporate-ties-that-bind-press-release
CORE’s response to latest Sellafield leukaemia study
Commenting on the publication today of the 17th Report of the Committee on the Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) – and its spokesman’s statements to BBC Radio Cumbria (minutes 03.35 to 08.07) – CORE notes:
Public Health England (PHE) buries its head in West Cumbrian sands along with radioactive particles and stones
Sellafield Ltd’s announcement of two ‘unusual finds’ on West Cumbrian beaches in May and June of this year – attributed to the new Groundhog Synergy 2 monitoring system introduced in May – should be ringing public health alarms in the corridors of those tasked to protect beach users from the radioactive materials routinely washed up … [Continue Reading]
‘Hot’ particles on West Cumbrian beaches, CORE’s case for signs supported by 97% of St. Bees beach visitors
Sellafield’s Environmental Health watchdog suggested Copeland Council consults with Scotland’s Dounreay and Dalgety Bay Councils’ about the use of beach signs advising the presence of radioactive materials. On Thursday 28th November, CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) presented its case for the use of beach signs on West Cumbrian beaches to the Environmental Health … [Continue Reading]
‘Guess in the dark’ advice from health protection agencies, reduced monitoring and lack of signs puts beach users at unnecessary risk of exposure to radioactive particles on West Cumbrian beaches
CORE ‘snapshot’ beach survey: 97% of visitors to St. Bees support ’right to know’ A Review conducted by local pressure group CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment), making a strong case for the use of signs on West Cumbrian beaches to advise the public on the presence of radioactive particles, has been sent to … [Continue Reading]
Public misled over ‘pristine’ West Cumbrian Beaches. CORE demands radiation safety warnings
Copeland Council may well be thrilled by the Quality Coast Awards to 4 of its beaches and celebrate with nice new shiny beach safety and Tourist Information Boards. These sentiments are shared neither by CORE nor by a father in a recent custody battle who claimed his son was being put at risk by visiting … [Continue Reading]