Nuclear Bomb Waste Dumped in Teesside ; Exclusive: Radioactive Material From Christmas Island Test Site Secretly Brought Here in 2008: Radioactive Waste Dumped

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RADIOACTIVE waste left over from nuclear bomb tests carried out in the 1950s has been dumped at a landfill site on Teesside, the Evening Gazette can reveal.

Residents at Port Clarence, Stockton,have spoken of their anger after the Government secretly disposed of as much as 388 tonnes of the hazardous material less than a mile from their homes. The toxic waste was left over after controversial UK weapons tests in the Pacific at the height of the Cold War. The Gazette can reveal much of the material was buried at a landfill site run by Augean on the north side of the River Tees in 2008, within a mile of Middlesbrough town centre, and directly across the water from Boro's Riverside Stadium. Officials have stressed that the waste poses no threat to members of the public, but local residents believe they should have been warned. Simon Burnett, who lives at nearby Limetrees Close, said: "For people like me who have kids, this is really worrying. It's right next to where we live. No one ever told us about this kind of radioactive waste being dumped.

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Nuclear Bomb Waste Dumped in Teesside ; Exclusive: Radioactive Material From Christmas Island Test Site Secretly Brought Here in 2008: Radioactive Waste Dumped

It's shocking. "Our government is supposed to look after us, but they agreed to move this stuff half way across the world only to dump it near our house." The British military carried out nine atmospheric nuclear explosions from a base at Chris...

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