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2005
1 January Heysham 2 Steam leak on Turbine Generator 7
5 February Hinkley Point B Carbon dioxide leak from tank
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25 February Torness Carbon dioxide leak through in-service inspection penetration
15 March Torness Carbon dioxide leak from ring main
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2006
30 January Sellafield Leak of dosed cooling water from B832 cooling tower
18 February Sellafield Leak of pond water through expansion joint above the stainless steel seal in B310 AGR storage pond
24 March Hunterston B Carbon dioxide leak in pipe trench
11 September Hinkley point B Carbon dioxide leak from supply pump
23 September Hartlepool Alternator hydrogen coolant leak
26 September Hartlepool Fracture of emergency cooling water main
2 October Dungeness B Auxiliary cooling water pipe work leak
15 October Sizewell A Steam leak from Turbine Alternator 1
18 November Heysham 2 Steam leak from Reactor 7

2007
7 January Sizewell A Fracture of pond recirculating water system pipe work
18 January Sellafield Waste Vitrification Plant electrical inductor cooling water leak
1 March Hinkley Point B Carbon dioxide leak outside plant room
26 March Dungeness B Carbon dioxide leak in reactor basement
1 June Hunterston B Leak from condensate booster pump
2 June Heysham 2 Leak in low pressure feed heater pipe work
18 July Dungeness B Leak of tritiated water identified
19 September Hartlepool Leak of pressure vessel cooling water identified on boiler closure unit
26 September Dungeness B Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
28 September Hunterston B Steam leaks in high pressure gland pipe work
27 October Oldbury Carbon dioxide leak from fuelling machine

2008
19 February Oldbury Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
20 February Torness Carbon dioxide leak from gas bypass plant
26 June Heysham 2 Steam leak in gland steam drain line
26 July Heysham 1 Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
7 October Wylfa Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
23 December Torness Carbon dioxide leak from valve in the fuel machine standby CO2 coolant supply.

2009
24 April Hartlepool Hydrogen leak from Unit 2 alternator frame
26 May Heysham 1 Turbine cooling water leak
28 May Hinkley Point B Pressure vessel cooling water leak from Reactor 4 sump
25 June Heysham 2 Loss of Hydrogen from turbo alternator
8 July Torness Leak from spent fuel pond cooling water system
9 December Sellafield Fuel pond chiller water leakage
21 December Heysham 1 Back up cooling water leak soon after start up

2010
22 January Sellafield Leakage of cooling water to active storage tanks
7 June Dungeness B Gland steam leak after start up
26 October Heysham 1 Small water leak from buffer store drain line
8 November Heysham 1 Emergency cooling water pipe failure and leak
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2005
4 February Heysham 1 Smouldering lagging on turbine
8 March Heysham 2 Fire on reactor basement sump pump
22 April Harwell Capacitor fire in building 459
22 June Torness Variable frequency output transformer fire
30 June Barrow Portacabin fire
14 July Heysham 2 Fire in bearing of fuel handling plant extract fan
16 September Torness Fire in purge air compressor no. 2
31 October Dungeness A Fire in bulk group 4 LF power supply

2006
23 January Sellafield Smoking bitumen seal around pipe on Combined Heat and Power Plant turbine
24 March Dounreay Hydrogen ignition during waste cutting operation in Prototype Fast Reactor
21 April Springfields Uranium shredder fire in building 338
23 October Heysham 2 Smouldering leak management tray beside hot turbine reheat pipe work
23 December Burghfield Smouldering cable in plant room

2007
1 February Hinkley Point B Fire in bund of gas circulator lube system
2 June Hunterston B Bearing fire on turbo generator 7
12 August Heysham 2 Bearing fire in cooling water pump

2008
7 January Dounreay Fire in office suite of D1208
13 March GE Healthcare Fire in inactive recycling plant
15 June Rolls Royce Manufacturing Fire in glove box
2 December Hartlepool Aerosol can fire
3 December Trawsfynydd convector heater fire in ponds office

2009
12 March Heysham 1 Lagging smoke/fire
15 March GE Healthcare Fire in services spine duct
31 March Barrow Fire on the casing of Astute Boat 2 during welding/grinding operations
18 April Barrow Fire on the bridge fin of Astute Boat I
29 April Oldbury Smoking air circuit breaker
18 May Wylfa Fire in Turbine alternator
22 July Sellafield Extract fan bearing fire
23November Dungeness B Boiler annex hydraulic fluid caught fire

2010
28 May Dounreay Small in cell fire of sodium residues
2 July Sizewell B Fire in ductwork in heating and ventilation building
4 July Aldermaston Solvent fire minor bums to one person
2 August Oldbury Lagging fire near turbo alternator
22 September Sizewell B Condensate pump fire
30 September Wylfa Smouldering electrical contactor in Turbine Hall
25 October Hinkley Point B Fire in circulator workshop
8 December Heysham 2 Bearing failure causing smoke in services building

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Elisabeth Sladen

Sladen in 2003

Born Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen
1 February 1946(1946-02-01)
Liverpool, England, UK

Died 19 April 2011(2011-04-19) (aged 65)
Southall, London, England, UK^[1]

Cause of death Cancer

Other names Elizabeth Sladen

Occupation Actress, presenter, writer

Years active 1965–2010

Spouse Brian Miller
(m. 1968–2011; her death)

Children Sadie Miller

Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen^[2] (1 February 1946^[3]^[4]^[1]^[5] – 19 April 2011) was an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British television series Doctor Who. She appeared as a regular from 1973 to 1976, opposite both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker, and reprised the role many times in subsequent decades, both on Doctor Who and its spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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1 Early life

2 Career

2.1 Early career

2.2 Sarah Jane Smith

2.3 Other work

3 Personal life

4 References

5 External links

Early life

Sladen was an only child whose father fought in World War I, and served in the Home Guard during World War II.^{[clarification needed]} Her mother's maiden name was Trainor, which is a Northern Irish name commonly seen in Liverpool.

Sladen developed an interest in performing at an early age, beginning dance lessons when she was five, and dancing in one production with the Royal Ballet. She was a primary school contemporary of future politician Edwina Currie (née Cohen), appearing in at least one school production with her; and a grammar school contemporary of Peter Goldsmith, the future Attorney-General, when both attended Quarry Bank School (now Calderstones School).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Early career

After attending drama school for two years, Sladen began work at the Liverpool Playhouse repertory company as an assistant stage manager. Her first stage appearance was as a corpse. However, she was scolded for giggling on stage, thanks to a young actor, Brian Miller, whispering the words, "Respiration nil, Aston Villa two" in her ear while he was playing a doctor. Sladen was so good as an assistant stage manager that she did not get many acting roles, a problem she solved by deliberately making mistakes on several occasions.^{[citation needed]} This got her told off again, but she started to get more on-stage roles.

Sladen made her first, uncredited, screen appearance in 1965 in the film Ferry Cross the Mersey as an extra.

Sladen eventually moved into weekly repertory work, travelling around to various locations in England. Sladen and Miller, now married, moved to Manchester, spending three years there. She appeared in numerous roles, most notably as Desdemona in Othello, her first appearance as a leading lady. She also got the odd part on Leeds Radio and Granada Television, eventually appearing as a barmaid in 1970 in six episodes of the long-running soap opera Coronation Street. In 1971, Sladen was in two episodes of Z-Cars. Then, in 1972, she was appearing in a play that moved down to London, and they had to move along with it. Her first television role in London was as a terrorist in an episode of Doomwatch. This was followed by guest roles in Z-Cars (again),^[6] Public Eye, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and Special Branch.

Sarah Jane Smith

In 1973, Doctor Who actress Katy Manning, who was playing the Third Doctor's assistant Jo Grant opposite Jon Pertwee, was leaving the series. Producer Barry Letts was growing increasingly desperate in his search for a replacement, when Z-Cars producer Ron Craddock gave Sladen an enthusiastic recommendation.

Sladen arrived at the audition not knowing it was for the new companion role, and was amazed at Letts's thoroughness. She was introduced to Pertwee, whom she found intimidating at the time. As she chatted with Letts and Pertwee, each time she turned to look at one of them the other would signal a thumbs-up.^[7] She was offered and accepted the part of investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith.

She stayed on Doctor Who for three and a half seasons, alongside Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Tom Baker as the Fourth, receiving both popular and critical acclaim for her role as Sarah Jane. When she left the series, in the 1976 serial The Hand of Fear, it made front page news,^{[citation needed]} where previously only a change of Doctors had received such attention. In October, 2009, Sladen paid tribute to her boss and friend, Barry Letts, after he died. She said Letts was her closest friend on Doctor Who.

Sladen returned to the character of Sarah Jane Smith on numerous occasions. In 1981, new Doctor Who producer John Nathan-Turner asked her to return to the series to ease the transition between Tom Baker and new Doctor Peter Davison. She declined but accepted his second offer of doing a pilot for a spin-off series called K-9 and Company, co-starring K-9, the popular robot dog from Doctor Who. However, the pilot was not picked up for a series. Two years later Sladen appeared in the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors.

She reprised the role in the 1993 Children in Need special Dimensions in Time, and in the 1995 independently produced video Downtime alongside former co-star Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield. This was her last on-screen appearance as Sarah Jane Smith for some time.

Sladen played Sarah Jane in several audio plays. Two of them were produced for BBC Radio, The Paradise of Death (Radio 5, 1993), and The Ghosts of N-Space (Radio 2, 1996), together with Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney. Big Finish Productions has also produced two series of Sarah Jane Smith audio adventures set in the present day, released in 2002 and 2006. Her daughter Sadie has also appeared in the audios.

In later years, Sladen had also participated re-visiting a few classic Doctor Who serials on DVD in doing audio commentaries and interviews (in the stories she starred in), but as of 2008 she stated in an interview that she was no longer doing them due to "contractual reasons with 2entertain".^[8]

Following the successful revival of Doctor Who in 2005, Sladen guest starred as Sarah Jane in "School Reunion", an episode of the 2006 series, along with John Leeson, who returned as the voice of the robot dog K-9, and David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor. Sladen was ever faithful to the character and worked a lot of the characterisation herself, in the lead-up to the broadcast of "School Reunion" she was quoted in The Daily Mirror as saying: "Sarah Jane used to be a bit of a cardboard cut-out. Each week it used to be, 'Yes Doctor, no Doctor', and you had to flesh your character out in your mind — because if you didn't, no one else would." She also spoke favourably of the characterisation in the new series.^[9]

Following her successful appearance in the series, Sladen later starred in The Sarah Jane Adventures, a Doctor Who spin-off focusing on Sarah Jane, produced by BBC Wales for CBBC and created by Russell T Davies. A 60-minute special aired on New Year's Day 2007, with a 10-episode series commencing broadcast in September 2007. The programme was nominated for a prestigious Royal Television Society award^[10] and was recommissioned for a second 12-episode series which was broadcast in late 2008.^[11] The third series was broadcast in Autumn 2009, and again achieved audience ratings well in excess of the usual average figures for the time slot (sometimes even double). A fourth season began airing in October 2010.

Sladen also read two original audio stories for The Sarah Jane Adventures,^[6] which were released in November 2007 on CD: The Glittering Storm by Stephen Cole and The Thirteenth Stone by Justin Richards. This was the first time that BBC Audiobooks have commissioned new content for exclusive release on audio.^[12] Two new audio stories ("Ghost House" and "Time Capsule") were released in November 2008, both read again by Sladen.^[13]

Sladen appeared in the final two episodes of Doctor Who’s 2008 series (season 4) finale "The Stolen Earth" and "Journey's End" and was credited in the title sequence of both episodes.^[14] Her final appearance in Doctor Who was a cameo in the concluding part of "The End of Time", Tennant's last episode as the Doctor.^[15]

Other work

After Doctor Who, Sladen returned to Liverpool with her husband and performed in a series of plays. This included a two-hander with Miller in Moonie and his Caravans. Notable appearances following that include a two-year stint as a presenter for the children's programme Stepping Stones, a lead role with Miller playing her husband in ITV drama Send In The Girls, a BBC Play For Today, a role as a stand-up comic's spouse in Take My Wife, and a small part in the movie Silver Dream Racer as a bank secretary in 1980, only her second motion picture appearance. In 1981, former Doctor Who producer Barry Letts cast her as the female lead in the BBC Classics production of Gulliver in Lilliput.

She continued to appear in various advertisements and in another Letts production, Alice in Wonderland (playing the Dormouse), as well as attending conventions in the United States. After the birth of her daughter Sadie Miller in 1985, Sladen went into semi-retirement, placing her family first, but finding time for the occasional television appearance. In 1995, she played Dr Pat Hewer in 4 episodes of Peak Practice. In 1996, she played Sophie in Faith in the Future, and appeared in 15 episodes of the BBC schools programme Numbertime, which was repeated annually for around ten years. This was her last television acting appearance until the 2006 Doctor Who episode "School Reunion".

In 1991, she starred as Alexa opposite Colin Baker in The Stranger audio adventure The Last Mission for BBV Audio. Sladen also appeared in a Bernice Summerfield audio drama, Kate Orman's Walking to Babylon.

In 2008–09, Sladen appeared in a panto production of Peter Pan at the Theatre Royal Windsor, playing Mrs. Darling and a beautiful mermaid.^[16]

Personal life

Sladen was married to actor Brian Miller from 1968 until her death. Their daughter, Sadie Miller, appeared with her in the range of Sarah Jane Smith audio plays by Big Finish Productions. As a child, Sadie appeared along-side Sladen in the 1996 documentary, Thirty Years in the TARDIS, wearing a replica of the Andy Pandy overalls Sladen wore in The Hand of Fear.

Sladen died early on 19 April 2011,^[17] after having cancer for many months.^[18]^[19]^[20] Series Six of Doctor Who starts on the Saturday following Elisabeth Sladen's death, In which straight after 'Doctor Who', a special tribute called 'My Sarah Jane Smith' will be aired. A spokeswoman for the show said that "something suitable is being planned" as a tribute to the actress.^[19] Sladen had also been interested in being involved in the Doctor Who Fourth Doctor Big Finish series.^[21]

References

^ ^a ^b "Elisabeth Sladen: Actress who came to fame as Dr Who's assistant and later had her own spin-off series". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elisabeth-sladen-actress-who-came-to-fame-as-dr-whos-assistant-and-later-had-her-own-spinoff-series-2270576.html. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

^ "Obituary: Elisabeth Sladen". Digital Spy. 2011. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a315494/obituary-elisabeth-sladen.html. Retrieved 2011-04-20.

^ General Register Office index of births registered in January, February and March, 1946 - Name: Sladen, Elisabeth, C.H. District: Liverpool South Volume: 8B Page: 303.

^ "Elizabeth Sladen". The Times Online. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article2993294.ece. Retrieved 21 April 2011.

^ "Elisabeth Sladen obituary". guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/20/doctor-who-fantasy. Retrieved 21 April 2011. "Elisabeth Sladen (Elisabeth Claira Heath-Sladen), actor, born 1 February 1946"

^ ^a ^b "Elisabeth Sladen interview". Southport TV. http://www.southport.tv/page.php?id=Elisabeth-Sladen. Retrieved 2011-04-20.

^ Barry Letts, commentary to DVD 'The Time Warrior'

^ "Elisabeth Sladen (The Sarah Jane Adventures) Interview". Lastbroadcast.co.uk. http://www.lastbroadcast.co.uk/tv/v/7081-elisabeth-sladen-the-sarah-jane-adventures-interview.html. Retrieved 2011-04-20.

^ Robertson, Cameron (2006-04-18). "Dr Who's 'cut-out' girl back". The Daily Mirror. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16958042%26method=full%26siteid=94762%26headline=exclusive%2d%2ddr%2dwho%2ds%2d%2dcut%2dout%2d%2dgirl%2dback-name_page.html. Retrieved 2006-04-21.

^ "Programme Awards 2007: Winners". Royal Television Society website. 2008-02-06. http://www.rts.org.uk/Information_page_+_3_pic_det.asp?sec_id=503&id=34996. Retrieved 2008-03-20.

^ "'Sarah Jane' gets second season". Digital Spy. 2008-03-19. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a88755/sarah-jane-gets-second-season.html. Retrieved 2008-03-20.

^ "The Sarah Jane Audios". BBC Doctor Who website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/10/01/49352.shtml. Retrieved 2007-10-02.

^ "The Sarah Jane Audios". BBC Doctor Who website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2007/10/01/49352.shtml. Retrieved 2007-10-02.

^ "Sarah Jane – The Return. UPDATED!". SFX. 2008-01-77. http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=sarah_jane_the_return_again. Retrieved 2008-03-20.

^ Anders, Charlie Jane (13 April 2009). "Star Trek Comedy And Doctor Who Tragedy — Revealed!". io9. http://io9.com/5209494/star-trek-comedy-and-doctor-who-tragedy--revealed. Retrieved 18 April 2009.

^ "Theatre Royal Windsor.". 2008-12-28. http://www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk/microsites/peterpan/. Retrieved 2008-12-28.

^ Telegraph Obituary

^ "Doctor Who - Elisabeth Sladen - News & Features". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_110419_01/Elisabeth_Sladen. Retrieved 2011-04-20.

^ ^a ^b "BBC News - Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen dies". BBC Online. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13137674. Retrieved 19 April 2011.

^ Tuesday, April 19 2011, 20:50 BST. "TV - News - Elisabeth Sladen dies, aged 63". Digital Spy. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/s7/doctor-who/news/a315485/elisabeth-sladen-dies-aged-63.html. Retrieved 2011-04-20.

^ http://bigfinish.com/news/Elisabeth-Sladen

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Elisabeth Sladen
Sladen in 2003
Born	Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen 1 February 1946(1946-02-01) Liverpool, England, UK
Died	19 April 2011(2011-04-19) (aged 65) Southall, London, England, UK^[1]
Cause of death	Cancer
Other names	Elizabeth Sladen
Occupation	Actress, presenter, writer
Years active	1965–2010
Spouse	Brian Miller (m. 1968–2011; her death)
Children	Sadie Miller

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Name	Sladen, Elisabeth
Alternative names
Short description	British actress
Date of birth	1 February 1946
Place of birth	Liverpool, England
Date of death	19 April 2011
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By Kim Ghattas BBC News, Beirut
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While the Syrian army deployed overnight to the restive city of Homs, preparations were under way in dozens of towns and cities across Syria to make this Friday's protests the biggest yet.

Small committees in neighbourhoods and mosques - formed over the last few weeks - came together discreetly to plan when and where to protest.

Meanwhile, an informal army of cyber activists swung into action - sharing information between the towns to keep the momentum going.

On Twitter, the account of @SyRevoSlogans, created on 18 April, offered a flood of slogans for people to use during demonstrations across the country - many suggested by fellow Twitter users.

User @syrianjasmine spread news of "thugs'' being bussed into the town of Daraya, while @wissamtarif kept track of student protests and arbitrary detentions in the capital Damascus.

The Facebook page of 'Syrian Revolution 2011', with its 120,000 followers, called on people to take to the streets for Friday protests. It said they have no excuse not to join now that the barrier of fear has fallen.

With almost no foreign reporters allowed into Syria, it called on anyone with pictures or videos to send them to Syriarage@gmail.com. International media can contact the page to confirm details or talk to eyewitnesses, it adds.

These are the two layers of the movement - the people on the ground who organise day-to-day events at a local level; and the online community which helps give the protests a sense of cohesion on a national level.

"Those of us online are not actually organising the demonstrations, but helping people on the ground to stay connected," said one cyber activist, speaking to the BBC on Skype. He asked to not to be named for safety reasons.

"We help the people in Deraa, for example, to know that they're not alone in their demonstrations," he added.
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The 'Syrian Revolution 2011' Facebook page has over 120,000 fans

Just like the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, the protests in Syria are a grassroots movement, with no real leaders but with a number of prominent activists who keep things going.

Rami Nakhle, a 28-year-old political science student, operated under the pseudonym Malath Aumran until his cover was blown late last year and he had to flee to Beirut.

He became politically active in 2006, when his attempts to protest against so-called honour killings were blocked.

With a group of friends, he launched an online newspaper and started to raise awareness about corruption in Syria. He met some of Syria's prominent intellectual dissidents.

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We can't stop now or we will go back 10 years - every single person who filmed the protests or who showed his face will be picked up”
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He created his online pseudonym Malath Aumran and launched an e-mail campaign to distribute information around Syria on how to circumvent internet censorship with the use of proxies.

In 2010, he was interrogated 40 times and often asked whether he knew Malath Aumran, who was fast becoming the most-wanted cyber dissident in Syria.

"[The protest movement] started online and on Facebook, but now Facebook is really just 1% of the movement," said Mr Nakhle, chain smoking in a Beirut cafe, his blue eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep.

In December 2010, Syrian security services made the connection between Malath Aumran and the unassuming Mr Nakhle.

He arranged to be smuggled to Lebanon and settled in a Christian neighbourhood - the safest area, in his view, in a country where Syrian influence and reach is still considerable.

Mr Nakhle's journey - from his hometown of Suweida on the border with Jordan to his life in a Beirut safehouse - exemplifies the slow political and intellectual journey made by scores of young people across the region over the last few years, until the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December spurred them into action.

Today, Mr Nakhle helps to keep the Syrian protest movement alive online from Beirut. He speaks of a large network of cyber activists who hold Skype conference calls and spend their days confirming events on the ground - arrests, deaths, protests - and e-mailing information around and out of Syria.
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People took to the streets in March, even before online calls for protest

Syrian dissident Ammar Abdulhamid, who lives in exile in Washington, says some cyber activists wanted to wait until the summer to launch the protests to allow for better preparation and co-ordination.

In the end, ordinary people spontaneously took over and took to the streets in March.

Mr Abdulhamid says members of the network of dissidents are mostly secular, intellectual liberals.

A group of 10, mostly inside Syria, slowly connected with more and more people across the country, through regional networks including in mosques.

Several of the dissidents - who requested anonymity - agreed that while connecting with religious networks was important, their movement was secular.

They reject the traditional opposition groups and figures, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Rifaat al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad's uncle.

No-one in Syria is calling today's protests decisive - it's unclear whether big crowds will manage to take to the streets in Damascus or take over a square in another Syrian city.

The Syrian government's response, whether it uses excessive violence or announces further more meaningful concessions, will also determine the course of events.

But the persistence of the protests shows that Syria has fully joined the wider regional call for more freedom, despite President Assad's recent assertions that Syria was different from Egypt and Tunisia.

"We can't stop now or we will go back 10 years," said Mr Nakhle. "Every single person who filmed the protests or who showed his face will be picked up."

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2005
1 January	Heysham 2	Steam leak on Turbine Generator 7
5 February	Hinkley Point B	Carbon dioxide leak from tank
19 February	Hinkley Point B	Carbon dioxide leak from tank
25 February	Torness	Carbon dioxide leak through in-service inspection penetration
15 March	Torness	Carbon dioxide leak from ring main
25 June	Dungeness A	Carbon dioxide leak from main CO2 plant
4 July	Sellafield	Damp patch discovered adjacent to B30 pond wall
25 July	Oldbury	Steam leak through thermocouple pocket of Boiler 4 on Reactor 1
4 August	Hinkley Point B	Carbon dioxide leak from vaporiser valve
30 October	Dungeness A	Carbon dioxide leak through failed isolation valve to pressure gauge

2006
30 January	Sellafield	Leak of dosed cooling water from B832 cooling tower
18 February	Sellafield	Leak of pond water through expansion joint above the stainless steel seal in B310 AGR storage pond
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11 September	Hinkley point B	Carbon dioxide leak from supply pump
23 September	Hartlepool	Alternator hydrogen coolant leak
26 September	Hartlepool	Fracture of emergency cooling water main
2 October	Dungeness B	Auxiliary cooling water pipe work leak
15 October	Sizewell A	Steam leak from Turbine Alternator 1
18 November	Heysham 2	Steam leak from Reactor 7

2007
7 January	Sizewell A	Fracture of pond recirculating water system pipe work
18 January	Sellafield	Waste Vitrification Plant electrical inductor cooling water leak
1 March	Hinkley Point B	Carbon dioxide leak outside plant room
26 March	Dungeness B	Carbon dioxide leak in reactor basement
1 June	Hunterston B	Leak from condensate booster pump
2 June	Heysham 2	Leak in low pressure feed heater pipe work
18 July	Dungeness B	Leak of tritiated water identified
19 September	Hartlepool	Leak of pressure vessel cooling water identified on boiler closure unit
26 September	Dungeness B	Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
28 September	Hunterston B	Steam leaks in high pressure gland pipe work
27 October	Oldbury	Carbon dioxide leak from fuelling machine

2008
19 February	Oldbury	Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
20 February	Torness	Carbon dioxide leak from gas bypass plant
26 June	Heysham 2	Steam leak in gland steam drain line
26 July	Heysham 1	Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
7 October	Wylfa	Carbon dioxide leak from storage tank
23 December	Torness	Carbon dioxide leak from valve in the fuel machine standby CO2 coolant supply.

2009
24 April	Hartlepool	Hydrogen leak from Unit 2 alternator frame
26 May	Heysham 1	Turbine cooling water leak
28 May	Hinkley Point B	Pressure vessel cooling water leak from Reactor 4 sump
25 June	Heysham 2	Loss of Hydrogen from turbo alternator
8 July	Torness	Leak from spent fuel pond cooling water system
9 December	Sellafield	Fuel pond chiller water leakage
21 December	Heysham 1	Back up cooling water leak soon after start up

2010
22 January	Sellafield	Leakage of cooling water to active storage tanks
7 June	Dungeness B	Gland steam leak after start up
26 October	Heysham 1	Small water leak from buffer store drain line
8 November	Heysham 1	Emergency cooling water pipe failure and leak

Fire
Date	Site	Incident
2005
4 February	Heysham 1	Smouldering lagging on turbine
8 March	Heysham 2	Fire on reactor basement sump pump
22 April	Harwell	Capacitor fire in building 459
22 June	Torness	Variable frequency output transformer fire
30 June	Barrow	Portacabin fire
14 July	Heysham 2	Fire in bearing of fuel handling plant extract fan
16 September	Torness	Fire in purge air compressor no. 2
31 October	Dungeness A	Fire in bulk group 4 LF power supply

2006
23 January	Sellafield	Smoking bitumen seal around pipe on Combined Heat and Power Plant turbine
24 March	Dounreay	Hydrogen ignition during waste cutting operation in Prototype Fast Reactor
21 April	Springfields	Uranium shredder fire in building 338
23 October	Heysham 2	Smouldering leak management tray beside hot turbine reheat pipe work
23 December	Burghfield	Smouldering cable in plant room

2007
1 February	Hinkley Point B	Fire in bund of gas circulator lube system
2 June	Hunterston B	Bearing fire on turbo generator 7
12 August	Heysham 2	Bearing fire in cooling water pump

2008
7 January	Dounreay	Fire in office suite of D1208
13 March	GE Healthcare	Fire in inactive recycling plant
15 June	Rolls Royce Manufacturing	Fire in glove box
2 December	Hartlepool	Aerosol can fire
3 December	Trawsfynydd	convector heater fire in ponds office

2009
12 March	Heysham 1	Lagging smoke/fire
15 March	GE Healthcare	Fire in services spine duct
31 March	Barrow	Fire on the casing of Astute Boat 2 during welding/grinding operations
18 April	Barrow	Fire on the bridge fin of Astute Boat I
29 April	Oldbury	Smoking air circuit breaker
18 May	Wylfa	Fire in Turbine alternator
22 July	Sellafield	Extract fan bearing fire
23November	Dungeness B	Boiler annex hydraulic fluid caught fire

2010
28 May	Dounreay	Small in cell fire of sodium residues
2 July	Sizewell B	Fire in ductwork in heating and ventilation building
4 July	Aldermaston	Solvent fire minor bums to one person
2 August	Oldbury	Lagging fire near turbo alternator
22 September	Sizewell B	Condensate pump fire
30 September	Wylfa	Smouldering electrical contactor in Turbine Hall
25 October	Hinkley Point B	Fire in circulator workshop
8 December	Heysham 2	Bearing failure causing smoke in services building