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Nuclear waste on M6
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NUCLEAR waste is now being carried on the Cumbrian sectic of the MG, following a dummy run earlier this month.
British Nuclear Fuels used this Scammell Contractor low loader unit at the beginning of this month on an empty run from Chapelcross power station in Dumfriesshire to Windscale in Cumbria.
A BNF spokesman told CM that the test was "extremely successful," despite its adding 20 miles to the ten-hour journey which is now undertaken three times every week.
The lorries run along the A74, M6, and the recently upgraded A66, and are limited to 12mph. The normal mini mum speed on motorways i 25mph, but the new rout takes the vehicles away fror towns and villages.
Despite protests from ant. nuclear groups, BNF insist that the vehicles and thei flasks are safe. British test have proved their ability t withstand severe impacts an temperatures of up to 800°C and American tests show the they survive after collision with concrete walls an railway locomotives.