{"id":229559,"date":"2016-03-07T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=229559"},"modified":"2016-03-07T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:50:15","slug":"british-base-workers-exposed-trident-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/british-base-workers-exposed-trident-radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"British base workers exposed to Trident radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A new report says safety breach at a nuclear weapons base in the United Kingdom exposed workers to radiation in 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>20 workers received \u2018low dose of radiation\u2019 while repairing a nuclear submarine at the Faslane nuclear base in\u00a0Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The workers were accidentally exposed to radiation as they were repairing a leaking tank on a\u00a0Trident nuclear submarine\u00a0at the same time as a nearby reactor was undergoing trials, according to the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The British Ministry of Defense said no one was harmed in the incident which took place in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign group, Nuclear Information Service by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), revealed the details.<\/p>\n<p>A report partly blamed poor communication and \u201ca lack of understanding of the magnitude of the hazards present when operating a reactor\u201d for the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/06\/454184\/UK-workers-exposed-radiation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report says safety breach at a nuclear weapons base in the United Kingdom exposed workers to radiation in 2012. 20 workers received \u2018low dose of radiation\u2019 while repairing a nuclear submarine at the Faslane nuclear base in\u00a0Scotland. The workers were accidentally exposed to radiation as they were repairing a leaking tank on a\u00a0Trident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}