UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste found in Cumbria landfill

Radioactive waste from Sellafield dumped in landfill, BBC News 30 April 2010, – An investigation has begun into how bags of radioactive waste from the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria ended up in a landfill site…..
A spokesman for the Environment Agency described the incident as “serious” and said Sellafield could face legal action.

He said: “We were informed by Sellafield that they disposed of, in error, five bin bags of low-level radioactive waste to a local landfill site.

“We have launched an investigation to establish how this has happened.”

About 70% of the UK’s higher radioactive waste is kept at Sellafield.

BBC News – Radioactive waste from Sellafield dumped in landfill