RADIOACTIVE waste left over from nuclear bomb tests carried out in the 1950s has been dumped at a landfill site on Teesside, the Evening Gazette can reveal. Residents at Port Clarence, Stockton,have spoken of their anger after the Government secretly disposed of as much as 388 tonnes of the hazardous material less than a mile from their homes. The toxic waste was left over after controversial UK weapons tests in the Pacific at the height of the Cold War. The Gazette can reveal much of the material was buried at a landfill site run by Augean on the north side of the River Tees in 2008, within a mile of Middlesbrough town centre, and directly across the water from Boro's Riverside Stadium. Officials have stressed that the waste poses no threat to members of the public, but local residents...
neil.macfarlane@eveninggazette.co.uk ALEX CUNNINGHAM says he is satisfied that radioactive waste left over from nuclear bomb tests does not pose a threat to Teesside residents. The Stockton North MP has been looking into how hundreds of tonnes of material cleared up after atomic bomb blasts on a Pacific island in the 1950s came to be disposed of at a landfill site in Port Clarence.
Ministers want to speed up plans for an underground store that would eventually take radioactive waste from redundant nuclear submarines alongside at Devonport. The Government wants to accelerate the timetable for a disposal facility and have it ready to take high-level material from 2029 - 11 years earlier than currently planned. The deep underground repository is central to plans to deal in the long term with the UK's nuclear legacy - both civilian and defence.
THE Evening Gazette today calls for the authorities to tell the full story about the radioactive waste from nuclear bomb tests that was secretly dumped on Teesside. As we reported yesterday, toxic material left behind after military explosions over Christmas Island in the South Pacific in the 1950s was transported back to the UK and consigned to landfill on a site next to the Tees within a mile of Middlesbrough town centre. The Environment Agency approved the dumping at Port Clarence, Stockton, and said the only radioactive materials included in the load were luminous painted dials found in abandoned military vehicles. But site operators Augean have admitted that they received 30 tonnes of radioactive sand from the Ministry of Defence. Stockton North MP Alex Cunningham said he was "abso...
harmful effect on people's health are the biggest concerns residents have over the building of a new nuclear power station on Anglesey. Horizon Nuclear Power want to build a two or three-reactor plant on land around Wylfa, which has been selected by the Government as a site for a new generation of nuclear stations.
The Environment Agency is asking communities near to the site of a proposed nuclear power station for their views on the disposal of radioactive waste and other processes. The organisation has received two applications for permits relating to the operation of the Hinkley Point nuclear power station on the North Somerset coast. They want feedback from residents around Bridgwater and Burnham-on-Sea before deciding whether to grant or refuse the plans from NNBGenCo, a subsidiary of EDF Energy. Brian Payne, from the Environment Agency, said: "We would like as many people as possible to respond to these applications. We will consider the views of local people before we make our decision.
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Work is due to begin next month on the construction of a pound(s)100 million store for low-level radioactive waste from a former nuclear power station. Up to six shallow vaults will be built on land next to Dounreay in Caithness, with the first expected to be ready in 2014.
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.
THOUSANDS of cubic metres of Scotland's nuclear waste could be stored north of the Border instead of being shipped to England. Ministers want to create a network of 'shallow graves' for the country's radioactive waste so it can be easily monitored and retrieved if necessary.
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