Hottest radiocactive spot so far turns up at Sandside
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"The presence of niobium-94 in the particle indicates it was originally from fuel that was burned in the Dounreay fast reactor," explained Mr Punler. "Why the ratio of caesium to strontium is so different in this particle we don’t know. The tests that we do on it may shed more light on it."

The beach at Sandside is around 3km west of the redundant nuclear site.

Meanwhile, work is due to resume in May to clear particles from the seabed near the site.

More than 1800 have been recovered so far from the seabed where there is evidence of a "plume" from historic effluent discharges dating back 50 years.
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