A SITE in the Blackdown Hills was secretly considered as one of the places to dump radioactive waste in the 1980s, official documents have revealed.
The site at Dunkeswell was shortlisted by former Government agency Nirex as a possible location to dispose of intermediate level radioactive waste.
The company was set up to manage the waste burial programme, but it was abandoned in 1997.
The list of more than 500 sites was unveiled last Friday under the Free-dom of Information Act.
The site was ruled out in the first stage of the programme because it was deemed unsuitable, but Hinkley Point, in West Somerset, passed through to the fourth stage before failing geology tests.
For the full story, see the Wellington edition of this week's Somerset County Gazette.
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