Dangers posed by the Sellafield nuclear plant could threaten Ireland for the next 150 years, it was claimed today.

THE Department of Health has said it is uncertain if it will issue more iodine tablets after tests on the last batch revealed they are still effective despite being due to expire next month.

The organisers of a sailboat demonstration against the passage of two BNFL nuclear freighters to England have had to cancel their protest on Dublin’s dockside.

YESTERDAY’S long-overdue decision by the EU to take legal action against Britain over the Sellafield nuclear plant is to be applauded.

THE European Commission is to take legal action against the British Government over "unacceptable failings" in dealing with nuclear waste at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria.

SELLAFIELD bosses are refusing to speculate on reports that the British government is about to grant them permission to store thousands of extra tons of radioactive waste at their Welsh base, 50 miles from the Irish coast.

British state-owned nuclear firm BNFL reported wider annual losses of £303m (€459.5m) today after seeing costs increase at operations including Sellafield.

British Nuclear Fuels Ltd has been granted permission to implement a new process designed to reduce discharges into the Irish Sea by the Sellafield nuclear plant.

THE Government will not recall iodine tablets distributed in 2002 despite them offering no protection in the event of a catastrophe at Sellafield, it has emerged.

Any and every effort by officials attached to British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) to allay fears here about Sellafield are doomed to futility.

An official from British Nuclear Fuels has insisted that the controversial Sellafield nuclear plant poses no risk to Ireland.

A MASSIVE pond holding up to five tonnes of the world's deadliest radioactive material, plutonium, and thousands of gallons of contaminated sludge is decaying at Sellafield.

British Nuclear Fuels, the company that owns Sellafield, has reportedly accepted an invitation to a public meeting in Co Louth to discuss the threat posed by the nuclear plant.

I HAVE the greatest respect for Colin Campbell and the work he is doing to highlight the looming energy crisis (Irish Examiner, February 7). Brian O’Mahony’s conclusion, however, to look at the nuclear option again, fills me with sadness and anger.

A planned strike by workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant was called off today so that further talks aimed at resolving a pay dispute can be held.

Hundreds of workers at the Sellafield nuclear processing plant were staging a walk-out today in a dispute over pay.

Strike action by workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant is being stepped up.

Workers at British Nuclear Fuel's Sellafield plant in Cumbria today held their first strike for 26 years in protest at the pay gap between manual and white collar workers.

Workers at the British nuclear reprocessing plant in Sellafield are to stage two one-day strikes in a dispute over pay, unions announced today.

THE Government has demanded clarification from Britain following conflicting reports about plans to close the THORP nuclear reprocessing facility at Sellafield.

Greenpeace is warning against raised hopes of the full closure of Sellafield.

The Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield is to close by 2010, a leading environmental campaign group predicted today.

British Nuclear Fuels has released a statement insisting that it does not have the power to decide on the closure of the Thorp reprocessing plant at Sellafield.

British Nuclear Fuels is reportedly planning to close the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield before the end of this decade.

I SUFFER from a very rare condition: irony deficiency. For where my fellow citizens see merely a humorous irony I am often troubled

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said today that he had relayed his concerns about the Sellafield nuclear plant to the British Ambassador to Ireland.

Fine Gael has claimed that British Nuclear Fuels is planning to increase discharges from Sellafield once new operations begin at the nuclear plant shortly.

Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny today demanded that Irish nuclear safety experts from the RPII be allowed to inspect the Sellafield nuclear plant.

Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny will lead a visit to the BNFL nuclear facility at Sellafield on Tuesday next.

The discovery of traces of radioactive waste in supermarket salmon justifies Ireland’s legal bid to close down Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant, it was claimed tonight.

THE Government yesterday demanded Britain be forced to immediately shut down the MOX plant at Sellafield at the opening day of its legal action in the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

IRELAND will go to the United Nations tomorrow to argue that the Sellafield MOX Plant be shut down.

BRITAIN’S total disregard for the safety of tens of thousands of Irish people living in the nuclear shadow of Sellafield is both arrogant and contemptuous.

FRESH questions about the safety of Sellafield will dominate a meeting between Environment Minister Martin Cullen and Britain’s Energy Secretary Brian Wilson this morning following reports that massive investment is needed to prevent radioactive leaks from an ageing storage facility.

RADIOACTIVE discharges from Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant increased between 2000 and 2001, new figures reveal.

THE Sellafield nuclear processing plant will have to stay up and running for at least another 50 years, British Nuclear Fuels safety chief said in Dublin last night.

A British MP has said there is growing concern that Sellafield is becoming a nuclear dumping ground.

Irish TDs and senators will today call on the British government to allow the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland to have automatic access to Sellafield.

HEALTH and radiation surveys have pointed to the Sellafield nuclear processing plant in Cumbria as being almost as much a hazard for people on Ireland's east coast as it is to those living and working near the British plant.

SELLAFIELD owner British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) is threatening to sue ailing nuclear power producer British Energy over stg£100 million (€158.7m) in unpaid bills according to industry sources.

British Nuclear Fuels, the company which runs the Sellafield nuclear plant, has insisted that safety at the controversial facility will not be compromised by next week's firefighters' strike in Britain.

THE Irish people could cease to exist if there was a major accident at Sellafield, an international tribunal hearing Ireland's case against the British Government was warned yesterday.

Ireland is today taking the British government to a tribunal in The Hague in a bid to gain access to information on Sellafield’s MOX plant.

THE Government begins legal action today to demand full disclosure by Britain of top secret documents on the Sellafield nuclear fuel manufacturing plant.