Two year clean-up of Scottish beach clears radioactive material from second world war planes

What was once Scotland’s most radioactive beach has been re-opened to the public, after a multi-million-pound clean-up operation.

Contractors have been sifting through 10,000m³ of sand and soil – the equivalent of four Olympic swimming pools of material – at Dalgety Bay in Fife since 2021 in a bid to identify particles of radium-226 and its radionucleotides.