The British government will launch an investigation on Wednesday into claims that former nuclear plant workers at a state-owned facility who died in the 1960s and 1970s may have had body parts removed without consent.Unions representing workers in the nuclear industry say as many as 70 people who worked at the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in northern England, may have had tissue, bones and organs removed for radiological testing.
A spokeswoman for the government's trade and industry minister Alistair Darling said he would be appointing a senior lawyer to lead an independent investigation to establish the facts.
"There are clearly a number of matters that need investigating dating back to the 1960s," she said. "The prime concern is the feelings of the families."
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