Tuesday, 22. June 2010
Topic: SPORT - on June 22, 2010 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Tonnes of radioactive waste casts doubt over London's Olympic stadium legacy
The development of the Olympic site in east London after the Games have finished could be in jeopardy because of radioactive waste buried beneath the site, experts have warned.
According to a Guardian investigation, any development of the site risks unearthing a hundred tonnes of radioactive waste dumped at the former landfill site decades ago. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) rules reveal that, contrary to government guidelines, waste from thorium and radium has been mixed with very low-level waste and buried in a so-called disposal cell close to the Olympic stadium - about 500m to the north.
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