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Revealed: the nuclear waste on Cheshire’s roads – Chester standard

Revealed: the nuclear waste on Cheshire’s roads

The Standard 2nd February 2009

REGULAR loads of nuclear waste are travelling along Cheshire roads, it has been revealed.

Emergency services went on full alert after a trailer carrying a load of low-level waste from Sellafield Ltd’s Capenhurst decommissioning site to its repository at Drigg in Cumbria became unhitched from the HGV tractor towing it near the junction of the A41 and the A5117 at Great Sutton.

Officials at the company along with outside safety watchdogs have now ordered a top-level inquiry into the incident

Revealed: the nuclear waste on Cheshire’s roads – Chester standard

February 2, 2009 - Posted by | safety, UK

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