NUCLEAR ARCHAEOLOGY

[i_love_rocks]

I'd like to the H&S brief for this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7918618.stm

[Paul Belford]

Closer to home, see also EH projects:

The Cold War (http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1200)

Recent Military Heritage (http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.6083)

[Oxbeast]

"While excavating a burial trench in December 2004, clean-up personnel discovered a safe which contained a jug filled with whitish liquid slurry. "

Who were they trying to bury on site?

Sellafield recently advertised for anyone who was involved in their disposal operations to get back in touch with them, as they might remember where the stuff was stashed. There is aparently an entire reactor (a small one) in a pit at an unknown location on the Rutherford-Appleton site in Culham, Oxfordshire...

[m300572]

"And there I was, happily digging out the fill of the feature when, to my amazement, there was bright flash and a small mushroom cloud at the end of my mattock!!"[:0]

[Paul Belford]

As opposed to mattocking in a mushroom-induced cloud...

...I went to Harwell with the scouts in about 1980. It was great fun, hi-tech computers in huge rooms with little green lights and spinning reel-to-reel tapes. Now there is more computing power in my phone. What a wonderful world!

[Dirty Dave Lincoln]

Sites that glow in the dark...at least you save on lighting costs:face-huh: