Revealed: Where the Mod Wants to Dump Its Radioactive Waste Secret Shortlist Contains Five Possible Scottish Sites

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A SECRET shortlist of a dozen sites across the UK where the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is thinking of dumping dangerous radioactive waste from defunct nuclear submarines can be revealed today by the Sunday Herald.

As many as five of the sites under consideration - for storing up to 500 cubic metres of toxic scrap from 27 submarines - are in Scotland. They are the two naval nuclear bases on the Clyde, at Coulport and Faslane, the Rosyth dockyard in Fife, the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness and possibly the Hunterston nuclear power station in North Ayrshire.

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Revealed: Where the Mod Wants to Dump Its Radioactive Waste Secret Shortlist Contains Five Possible Scottish Sites

Confidential documents leaked from the government's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) disclose official fears that such stores are like to be regarded as "contentious" because of the "sensitivity of military wa...

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