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Article: Dumped uranium discovered
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1996
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Drums of radioactive uranium were found on a farm in
Northamptonshire yesterday prompting an investigation by Her
Majesty's Inspector of Pollution.
Police and pollution experts were playing down the risks of
contamination from the depleted uranium, which has a wide variety
of industrial uses and is found in armour plating and shell cases.
The HMIP said the farm at Chelveston had been used as an illegal
dump and the drums containing the metal resulted from fly-tipping.
The incident came to light when the farmer sold some of the
drums to a scrap metal dealer in Sheffield who called in experts
after suspecting the identity of the metal.
A spokesman for the HMIP said: "We are ...