NUCLEAR weapons factories in Britain may be much more contaminated with
radioactive and toxic waste than previously thought, according to a confidential
report by British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) obtained by Â鶹´«Ã½. The
report also reveals that the amount of waste stored at the nuclear weapons
plants at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire and Cardiff in Wales may have
been seriously underestimated by the Ministry of Defence.
State-owned BNFL, recently heavily criticised over lax safety procedures at
its Sellafield reprocessing plant, took over running the three Atomic Weapons
Establishment (AWE) sites for the MoD on 1 April in a consortium…
