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Beach in nuke scare.


RADIOACTIVE metal has been found on a popular holiday beach near Dounreay nuclear power station.

The small piece of reactor Reactor (electricity)

A device for introducing an inductive reactance into a circuit. Inductive reactance x is a function of the product of frequency f and inductance L; thus, x = 2πfL.
 fuel was discovered at picturesque picturesque, term used in 18th-century England to refer to a landscape that looked as if it had come out of an academic painting. Used as derogatory criticism of such painting, the picturesque was considered pretty rather than beautiful.  Sandside Bay, just a mile-and-a-half from the Caithness station.

It's the 12th fragment (1) In networking, one piece of a data packet that has been broken into smaller pieces in order to accommodate the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size of a network. See IP fragmentation.  to be found on the beach - two-thirds in the last year - since Dounreay was forced by watchdogs to adopt an upgraded vehicle-mounted monitoring system.

Last night, a spokesperson said the chances of the public coming into contact with the uranium uranium (yrā`nēəm), radioactive metallic chemical element; symbol U; at. no. 92; at. wt. 238.0289; m.p. 1,132°C;; b.p. 3,818°C;; sp. gr. 19.  was "extremely low".
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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Jul 18, 2000
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