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Former air base radiation 'higher than normal'
Somerset Guardian
|June 26, 2025
Radioactive contamination has been found at a former military air-base in Wiltshire that has been converted into a business and retail park.
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Wiltshire Council confirmed contractors at the former RAF Bowerhill base in Melksham "identified radiation dose rates that were slightly higher than the normal background dose rates expected in the UK".
The council insists there is "no elevated risk to the general public".
This story is from the June 26, 2025 edition of Somerset Guardian.
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