Nuclear Waste Export Plan Sails Into a Storm Concerns Over Risk of Marine Contamination Concerns Over Risk of Marine Contamination Environment: Radioactivity
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AN unprecedented plan to export radioactive waste from old nuclear submarines in Scotland to Sweden is coming under fire from local authorities worried about accidents and pollution.
The naval dockyard at Rosyth in Fife has applied for permission to ship metal contaminated with radioactivity to a smelter near Nykping in Sweden, run by the nuclear waste company Studsvik.See the full content of this document
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Nuclear Waste Export Plan Sails Into a Storm Concerns Over Risk of Marine Contamination Concerns Over Risk of Marine Contamination Environment: Radioactivity
The plan is for the metal, from the decommissioning of seven defunct submarines laid up at Rosyth, to be melted, decontaminated and reused.
The contaminated slag will then be ...See the full content of this document
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