date:Apr 08, 2013
ave been buried in man-made ground adjacent to the coast.
Items containing radioactive radium-226 have been detected at Dalgety Bay since 1990. Despite clean-up operations undertaken by the MoD, an intensive survey by the SEPA begun in September 2011 found many radioactive items on the beach. Some had relatively high radioactivity levels, and may have been released by coastal erosion.
The seafood sampling was managed jointly by the Food Standards Agency in Scotland and SEPA and results are rep