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Trident leak sees radiation levels soar to new high
Trident's leaking nuclear reactor saw radiation levels in the area soar to more than 10 times the regular rate

Trident's leaking nuclear reactor saw radiation levels in the area soar to more than 10 times the regular rate, furious campaigners revealed yesterday.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond stoked anger north of the border last week when he notified MPs of the nuclear weapons programme's malfunctioning reactor - more than two years after engineers first discovered radiation spilling out into the reactor's coolant in January of 2012.

The Tory warmonger had assured MPs in the House of Commons that there had been "no measurable change in the radiation discharge.

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