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Article: MISSING; Dounreay loses enough uranium to make TWELVE nuclear bombs.(News)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1998
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Enough uranium to make a dozen atomic bombs was lost at Dounreay over three years.
An internal audit of the controversial Caithness plant listed 170kg of highly- enriched uranium missing.
Experts say some of the material could still be in waste pipes.
But it may have been used in Britain's A-bomb programme during the Cold War.
And scientists admitted yesterday there could be even more deadly radioactive waste unaccounted for.
The revelation comes just a day after health and safety experts launched the most detailed ever ...