Radioactive Consignments T WO serious road accidents involving radioactive consignments took
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place in 1962, although no contamination risk arose front either of them, the Atomic Energy Commission stated in its annual report.
In one accident a lorry carrying lowactivity waste from Capenhurst to Windscale overturned without causing injury. In the other, which involved a collision bztween a transporter carrying irradiated fuel from Chapelcross to Wind scale and a lorry, the lorry driver was killed.
The Commission's work to produce accident-proof containers for radioactive material made progress during the year.
A survey showed that the A.E.A. is now consigning some 102,000 packages or such material a year between the various establishments in Britain. A large number of these are making either all or part of the journey by road.
During 1962, this traffic resulted in no hazard either to the public or the transport employees affected.