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Article: In depth: Without prejudice.
- Article from:
- Pensions Week
- Article date:
- February 9, 2009
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Byline: Adam Bushby - Pensions partner, Lawrence Graham LLP
Equalisation
Fixing a problem can be a daunting prospect, particularly when previous attempts to do so have created new and complex challenges of their own.
Spare a thought then for the people of Murmansk's Kola Peninsula who, since the 1980s, have lived alongside some 20,000 unloved uranium fuel rods.
Inevitably, after being wrapped in back-issues of Pravda and stacked in a draughty boathouse, the rods became rather crumbly. It took complaints from neighbouring Norwegian sheep farmers possibly as a result of the disparity in the number of heads and tails on their lambs ...