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SAMPLES of silt and sand are collected regularly from the estuary of the River Ribble as part of the programme of environmental monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to measure the distribution of radioactivity discharged into the Irish Sea. This discharge occurs from the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's factories at Windscale (in Cumberland), and Springfields (in Lancashire).
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DUTTON, J. Detection of Thorium-234/Protactinium-234m in Sediments from the Ribble Estuary, Lancashire, England. Nature 211, 1395–1396 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111395a0
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