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A Secret list of 12 sites in Britain being considered for burying nuclear waste, including some near built up areas, has been disclosed for the first time.

It has been released under the 'Freedom of Information Act' after being kept secret since the 1980s.

Although Nirex, the nuclear disposal company, said the planned waste burial programme was abandoned eight years ago, anti-nuclear campaigners yesterday warned the sites could be examined again.

They were at Bradwell and Potton Island in Essex, Stanford, Norfolk, Killingholme in Humberside, two in Sellafield Cumbria, Dounreay and Altnabreac in Caithness.

Offshore sites near Redcar,Cleveland and Hunterston on the Clyde were also considered.

Radioactive waste needs to be kept safe for thousands of years. Created in the 1940s, it is stored at 34 locations around the UK.



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It gets worse-at one point they were going to test nuclear weapons at Cape Wrath on the basis that there were few living there and leaving parts of Scotland a Nuclear desert wasn't seen as a major issue, luckily for us they settled on the South Pacific instead. The UK Govt still has not made reparation to the islanders dispossesed as a consequence. In those days whole peoples could be kicked off their island and nobody cared.

Should we mention Gruinard Island too? That's Scottish. Back in 1942, it was the UK test site for biological warfare, and it's only been re-opened to the public in the last ten years.

"Eighty sheep were taken to the island, and a bomb filled with anthrax spores was exploded; the sheep began dying within days. The conclusion of the test was that a large scale release of spores could render a city unusable for decades: due to the durability of anthrax spores, decontamination was unsuccessful, and the island was quarantined, with no-one permitted to visit, other than an occasional check on the level of contamination. Beginning in 1986, a determined effort was made to decontaminate the island, with 280 tonnes of formaldehyde solution diluted in seawater being sprayed over all 520 acres (2 km²) of the island, and the worst-contaminated topsoil around the dispersal site being removed."

Why Not, beautiful island, can't say I would visit it yet even if it's been decontaminated. Allegedly the results were deliberately leaked to warn Hitler off even thinking about using biological weapons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1457035.stm

A recent leak at Sellafield nuclear plant could close part of the site for months.Production stopped at the site's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) in April after the discovery of a leak from a pipe, which went undetected for up to eight months.

Sellafield's managing director told the BBC the plant may remain closed for months.

OMG, think of what al-Queada could do here. It doesn't bear thinking about :-5