A DIVISION of Rolls-Royce will be sentenced today for exposing workers to high levels of radiation.
Marine Power Operations, which is part of the Rolls-Royce group, has already admitted failures which led to the incident in March 2011.
It involved three welders and a radiographer unknowingly handling harmful radioactive material that should have been kept in a sealed container.
When they realised that the object they had been holding was actually a radioactive source, they were in a state of panic.
The incident happened at Rolls-Royce's Marine Power Operations business, in Sinfin Lane, where radioactive materials are used to test nuclear submarine components manufactured there.
In July, at Derby crown Court, the company admitted seven charges of breaching health and safety regulations, which included failures in keeping control of the radioactive source and insufficient training of staff.
The company is due to be sentenced at Leicester Crown Court this morning.