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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

New safety equipment installed after Nuclear-sub spill

Trafalgar-class submarineNew safety equipment is being introduced at Devonport Naval Base, two years after a nuclear spill in which hundreds of litres of radioactive liquid escaped into the River Tamar, writes Andy Greenwood.

In November 2008, 280 litres of water, contaminated with radioactive Cobalt-60 and Tritium, poured from a burst hose as it was being pumped from the nuclear-powered submarine HMS Trafalgar. It was the worst nuclear spill at the Royal Navy dockyard since 1985.

Both the Royal Navy and Environment Agency insisted that there had been "no risk to the public" and the incident was treated seriously and fully investigated.

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