1960s vacuum found in radioactive waste at nuclear plant

1960s vacuum found in radioactive waste at nuclear plant

The domestic Electrolux cleaner was used at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria during the 1950s and 1960s.

As Sellafield staff proudly empty unknown radioactive material from places ‘designed never to be emptied’ Scots wonder where on earth they are going to put it now

Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks to Frances McKie for alerting me to this. In a remarkable piece in the Cumberland News & Star, tow days ago we read: The Electrolux vacuum cleaner was found in Sellafield’s Pile Fuel Cladding Silo, which has been a locked vault since the 1970s. The household hoover is thought to have been used to clean up radioactive dust in the facility during the 1950s and 1960s. After decades of work to figure out how to ta…