And although the levels are within safe EU limits, Sellafield and
Scottish nuclear power stations have infiltrated the food chain here.
Traces
of radiation were found in fruit, potatoes and vegetables near to
Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, in the far north-east of
Scotland .
Whilst in Chapelcross, in Dumfriesshire, nuclear radiation has made its way into the milk.
Where
as at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, the destination of
Britain's nuclear submarines where liquid radioactive waste is
discharged into the Gareloch,
beef has been revealed to contain a small amount of radiation
Sellafield is a nuclear reprocessing site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England. The site is served by Sellafield railway station. Sellafield incorporates the original nuclear reactor site at Windscale, which is currently undergoing decommissioning and dismantling, and Calder Hall,
another neighbour of Windscale, which is also undergoing
decommissioning and dismantling of its four nuclear power generating
reactors.