Whilst researching on my site I came across a fact known by little: The University of Greenwich used to house a nuclear reactor. It was named JASON and was fully dismantled in 1999 with, apparently, 270 tonnes of radioactive waste removed!
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Royal_Naval_College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_reactor
http://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/articles.aspx?Index=140
http://greenwichindustrialhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/jason.html
http://objectwiki.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wiki/Control_Panel_for_Jason_Nuclear_Reactor.html
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