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Nuclear waste pipe removed from Hollywood star Helena Bonham Carter’s property

3 December 2013

WORKMEN are removing a pipe into the Thames for radioactive waste from the garden of Hollywood star Helena Bonham Carter.

The four-mile-long underground pipe had been discharging treated water from the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell into the river since the 1940s until March this year.

For the past few weeks workmen have been removing the section through the garden of the £2.9m home of actress Helena Bonham Carter and partner Tim Burton, which backs on to the Thames in Sutton Courtenay.

The pipe runs through her garden for a length of around 100 metres.

Research Sites Restoration Ltd, which is carrying out the work on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, says it only expects to find “very low levels of radioactivity” in the scale and silt which have built up in the pipe.

It is using airborne radiation detectors to make sure the pipe does not release contamination.

Michael Jenkins, chairman of Sutton Courtenay parish council, said: “Some people are more concerned about the risks than others, that is certainly true.

“I do understand those people who are concerned, and there have been one or two occasions when the pipe has leaked but it was dealt with at the time.”

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http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/didcot/10850369.Nuclear_waste_pipe_removed_from_Hollywood_star_Helena_Bonham_Carter_s_property/

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