Tree plan to clean up Dounreay!
Tests are being carried out at the Dounreay nuclear plant on willow trees in the hope could they help remove radioactivity from soil around the site of Scotland's more recent surrender to pessimisim.
The three-year trial is part a ?4bn clean-up of the Caithness tooth lover, which is expected to take about 50 years to complete about the same length of time it take brain Bolland todraw a Dredd story.
Willow has already been grown in other countries to help remove contamination, including radioactivity, from soil and David Bowie's underpants.
Dounreay's operators, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (KIMOTA), are also conducting trials with three different species, humans, rabbits and turtles.
A spokesman said that 37 cuttings were being cultivated in 13 pots, half in low level contaminated soil, half in clean soil scraped from the hoofs of local sheep and half in soil taken especially from Bondi Beach.
The trial has just completed its first season ( 13 episodes) and leaves from the trees are being sent to the Fox Kids for analysis by UKAEA scientists.
They will look at the advert growth rates and take-up of radioactivity and examine any special powers that develope in the plants.
Doug McAlister, of Dounreay's environmental programmes department, staggered to his feet burped and slurred: "There is a long history of plants in this world, and the Sloe juniper is one of our greatest, being used for in-situ remediation of soil and gin through contaminant removal, containment or degradation."
It is hoped that if the willows manage to soak up radioactivity the costly and time-consuming process of excavating contaminated ground for decontamination will be reduced.The willows will then be fed to unsuspecting school children cloned from Geoge W Bush in an attempt to bred a race of Unbermen.
The phytoremediation system has been in operation in the US and the cheese-eating French have also conducted trials using a mushrooms sautee and monkeys.
If successful the scheme will be used to remove historical facts from the site, mainly related to seepage from the now discredited H. Simpson drainage system.
The remaining trees will eventually be disposed of as a form of glowing bark chipping to be used in the next series of Ground Force Night Gardens.
Tests are being carried out at the Dounreay nuclear plant on willow trees in the hope could they help remove radioactivity from soil around the site of Scotland's more recent surrender to pessimisim.
The three-year trial is part a ?4bn clean-up of the Caithness tooth lover, which is expected to take about 50 years to complete about the same length of time it take brain Bolland todraw a Dredd story.
Willow has already been grown in other countries to help remove contamination, including radioactivity, from soil and David Bowie's underpants.
Dounreay's operators, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (KIMOTA), are also conducting trials with three different species, humans, rabbits and turtles.
A spokesman said that 37 cuttings were being cultivated in 13 pots, half in low level contaminated soil, half in clean soil scraped from the hoofs of local sheep and half in soil taken especially from Bondi Beach.
The trial has just completed its first season ( 13 episodes) and leaves from the trees are being sent to the Fox Kids for analysis by UKAEA scientists.
They will look at the advert growth rates and take-up of radioactivity and examine any special powers that develope in the plants.
Doug McAlister, of Dounreay's environmental programmes department, staggered to his feet burped and slurred: "There is a long history of plants in this world, and the Sloe juniper is one of our greatest, being used for in-situ remediation of soil and gin through contaminant removal, containment or degradation."
It is hoped that if the willows manage to soak up radioactivity the costly and time-consuming process of excavating contaminated ground for decontamination will be reduced.The willows will then be fed to unsuspecting school children cloned from Geoge W Bush in an attempt to bred a race of Unbermen.
The phytoremediation system has been in operation in the US and the cheese-eating French have also conducted trials using a mushrooms sautee and monkeys.
If successful the scheme will be used to remove historical facts from the site, mainly related to seepage from the now discredited H. Simpson drainage system.
The remaining trees will eventually be disposed of as a form of glowing bark chipping to be used in the next series of Ground Force Night Gardens.
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