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THE bill for dredging the seabed to remove radioactive particles from Dounreay nuclear power station could be [GBP]70bn, it was revealed yesterday.
Norman Harrison, director at the Caithness plant, admitted for the first time there was nothing the UKAtomic Energy Authority - which runs the plant - could do to recover all radioactive particles which had escaped in the past 40 years.See the full content of this document
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Clean Up the Nuclear Beach at Dounreay? [Gbp]70bn Please Director Admits It's Impossible to Remove All Traces of Radioactivity
A proposal to dredge completely the area of sediment most contaminated by the particles would cost almost 30 times what the public purse is expected to pay to decommission the plant.
Mr Harrison was s...See the full content of this document
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