Editing Sellafield (section)

===Organ removal inquiry===
In 2007, an inquiry was launched into the removal of tissue from a total of 65 dead nuclear workers, some of whom worked at Sellafield.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 April 2007 |title=Sellafield organ removal inquiry |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6565409.stm |access-date=18 May 2007 |archive-date=5 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505120254/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6565409.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> It has been alleged that the tissue was removed without seeking permission from the relatives of the late workers. Michael Redfern QC was appointed to lead the investigation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Peter |date=10 July 2007 |title=Sellafield body parts scandal |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jul/10/health.nuclearindustry |access-date=25 September 2008 |archive-date=5 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005105726/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jul/10/health.nuclearindustry |url-status=live }}</ref> At the same time ''[[The Observer]]'' revealed that official documents showed that during the 1960s volunteer workers at Sellafield had participated in secret [[Cold War]] experiments to assess the biological effect of exposure to radioactive substances, such as from ingesting [[caesium-134]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Doward |first=Jamie |date=22 April 2007 |title=Revealed: UK nuclear tests on workers |work=The Observer |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/22/nuclear.world |access-date=17 November 2010 |archive-date=31 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831052428/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/22/nuclear.world |url-status=live }}</ref>

The inquiry final report was published in November 2010,<ref name="redfern-report">{{Cite report |url=http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn10_119/pn10_119.aspx |title=The Redfern Inquiry into human tissue analysis in UK nuclear facilities |last=Michael Redfern |date=16 November 2010 |publisher=The Stationery Office |isbn=978-0-10-296618-3 |access-date=18 November 2010 |archive-date=21 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121005433/http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn10_119/pn10_119.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> reporting that "...body parts had been removed between 1961 and 1992. The deaths of 76 workers – 64 from Sellafield and 12 from other UK nuclear plants – were examined, although the scope of the inquiry was later significantly widened."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Jonathan |date=17 November 2010 |title=How Sellafield 'mutilated' its workers' bodies |work=The Independent |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/how-sellafield-mutilated-its-workers-bodies-2136068.html |access-date=11 September 2017 |archive-date=29 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929172129/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/how-sellafield-mutilated-its-workers-bodies-2136068.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The person behind this scheme was Dr Geoffrey Schofield, who became BNFL's Company chief medical officer, and who died in 1985. Sellafield staff did not breach any legal obligation, did not consider their actions untoward, and published the scientific information obtained in peer-reviewed scientific journals. It was the hospital pathologists, who were profoundly ignorant of the law, who breached the [[Human Tissue Authority|Human Tissue Act 1961]] by giving Sellafield human organs, without any consents, under an informal arrangement.<ref name=redfern-report />