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Scottish Wave Farm Stirs-up Nuclear Risk.
Posted on October 15, 2008
It is proposed to build the world's biggest tidal-farm off the north of Scotland. While this sounds worthily green and renewable , an independent nuclear consultant Dr John Large has warned that the cables that will need to be run along the seabed may disturb thousands of radioactive particles that originated from the Dounreay nuclear power plant, the world's first commercial fast-breeder...
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