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Article: 'Fiasco' of secret nuclear waste tips HUNTERSTON: POLLUTION FEARS HUNTERSTON: POLLUTION FEARS Probe into Ayrshire dumps Questions over lost records Concerns of erosion due to global warming and rising seas
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- January 15, 2006
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INVESTIGATIONS have been launched into the risks to public health
and safety posed by secret radioactive waste dumps on the North
Ayrshire coast, the Sunday Herald can reveal. Thousands of cubic
metres of contaminated rubbish from Hunterston nuclear power station
have been dumped in five shoreline pits accessible to the public. Yet
official records of what the pits contain have been destroyed.
Recent monitoring of the Ayrshire foreshore has uncovered
unexpectedly high levels of radioactivity, and there are mounting
concerns that the pits could be eroded or flooded by the rising sea
levels caused by global warming.
The emerging story of the hitherto unknown waste pits has been
described as a ...