RADIATION from fish and lobsters near Sellafield suggest radioactive material dumped into the sea from Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant isn’t a long-term health threat, scientists said.

A WEEK after their home town was annihilated in a catastrophic tsunami, the 1,000-plus survivors of the small Japanese fishing town of Otsuchi are hanging by a thread.

WITH reference to the letter from Adi Roche (October 11) concerning, among other things, the Windscale reactor fire in October 1957, I would like to respond as one of the authors of the recent study of the accident.

RENEWED calls for an investigation of possible links between a cluster of illnesses along Ireland’s east coast and the 1957 Windscale nuclear disaster are likely, following confirmation that twice as much radioactive debris was discharged in the fire as was originally claimed.

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.