Radioactive Contamination
The RAF Newton site is, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD), contaminated with Radium.
The contamination comes from Radium that was used to coat the dials of aircraft and other equipment so that they could be seen in the dark. It was in scrap burned and dumped in the 1940s and 1950s, and remains radioactive for thousands of years.
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