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Now, where did I put that nuclear waste?

27 February 2009

Where there's muck, there's brass, runs the old adage. Maybe that needs a change in Cumbria where the owners and operators of the country's biggest low level radioactive dump (sorry, repository) have taken out ads in the local paper to jog the memories of local people who worked at the Drigg facility in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The reason? Well, it turns out that the record-keeping for the nuclear dump is far from complete. To put it frankly, what is in the dump is a bit of a mystery. "We are very keen to speak to people who were directly involved in consigning nuclear waste during the 1960s to the mid-1980s in order to build up a comprehensive picture of the waste inventory in the trenches."
Oops.
There are persistent local rumours that the radwaste dump contains a fire engine and a bus. Surely not?

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