UK admits submarines leaked radioactive material
MAY 19, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023347
The Guardian : Radioactive waste has leaked from Britain’s nuclear submarines nine times in the past 12 years, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted. Two of the leaks â including one at Devonport near Plymouth two months ago â had not been revealed until today.
Confirmation of the leaks raises new questions about the MoD’s safety record, which has been coming under increasing scrutiny since HMS Vanguard, a British submarine armed with Trident nuclear missiles, collided with a nuclear-armed French submarine, Le Triomphant, under the Atlantic in February.
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