Nuclear experts clean radioactive site with Cillit Bang
— Decontamination experts at the former nuclear site at Dounreay, northern Scotland, are using the Cillit Bang household cleaner to remove radioactive plutonium stains. —
The huge site in Caithness is in the process of being decommissioned but workers found their normal cleaning fluid was slowing down the job of dismantling an experimental chemical plant used in the 1980s to recycle plutonium liquor. One of the team suggested £1.99 Cillit Bang
after watching a television advertisement that shows dirt being stripped from a 10p coin. The four-storey chemical plant consists of a series of vessels, pipes and boxes made from steel and toughened glass. The solutions which ran through it left the steel stained with plutonium, creating a hazard for the team taking it apart. David Hanson, project manager with Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd, said the efficacy of Cillit Bang was helping drive down the £2.6 billion cost of demolishing the site.
So reports the Telegraph on August 24, 2009
(Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.)