UK Nuclear Weapons Test Participants Study (NWTPS)
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
183390
Contact name
Richard Haylock
Contact email
Research summary
NWTPS
REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/SW/0314
Date of REC Opinion
18 Nov 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
In order to enable epidemiological analysis, data for male UK service personnel and civilians involved in the UK nuclear weapons atmospheric testing programme between 1952 and 1967 were collated in the 1980s and stored in a secure, password protected computer system. This includes information on age and employment as well as detail of cause of death and cancer incidence. A comparable number of records are similarly stored for a matched control group. These data are collated from employer-held records and from national death and cancer registries.
Research programme
The project was commissioned in 1983 to investigate reports of health detriment amongst those who had participated in the UK nuclear weapons atmospheric tests held in the Pacific and in Australia between 1952 and 1967. The long-running records-based study has reported in the peer-reviewed scientific press and continues the follow-up through national registries
Research database title
NWTPS
Establishment organisation
Public Health England
Establishment organisation address
PHE-CRCE
Chilton, Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0RQ