FAMILIES of Oxfordshire nuclear laboratory workers will today find out if their dead relatives body organs and tissue were used for research without consent.

An independent probe was launched after it was discovered in 2007 that body parts were taken from nuclear workers who were employed at the Harwell Laboratory, near Didcot, between 1962 and 1992.

It is believed the employees' organs were analysed for contents of radionuclide, an unstable form of an element that can decay and give off radiation.

In total 65 reported cases were examined including people from Sellafield in Cumbria, Aldermaston in Berkshire, and Springfields near Preston, Lancashire.

The report is expected to be published later today.