Cumbria flooding: Environment Agency issues alert on Drigg nuclear waste site

The Ecologist
Dec 31, 2015, 12:41 pm302 pts
Following this month's intense rainfall in the north of England an Environment Agency alert has highlighted the flood risk to the crumbling nuclear waste dump adjoining Sellafield in Cumbria, writes Marianne Birkby - a dump which remains in use despite its condemnation by the EA in 2005 due to its likely…

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Cumbria flooding: Environment Agency issues alert on Drigg nuclear waste site

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