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CHILWELL
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Doctor Menzies, you were the pathologist who examined the body. What was the cause of death?
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MENZIES
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Drowning, but she had been exposed to a great deal of radiation.
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CHILWELL
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Are you able to confirm the source of the radiation?
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MENZIES
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No, but I am able to say that activation products from fast neutrons identifies her as having been exposed to a criticality accident.
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CHILWELL
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What does that mean exactly?
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MENZIES
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It means that she was in proximity to concentrated fissile material.
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CHILWELL
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And where would you find that?
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MENZIES
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In a reprocessing plant.
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GODBOLT
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 Waiting to be called? Mind if I join you? All politics, isn't it? I suppose that's why they call it the mother of parliaments. A lot of people down here got Northmoor in their sights.
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CRAVEN
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I'm one of them.
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GODBOLT
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Why would they want to call you?
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CRAVEN
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The know about Emma breaking into the plant. They think I can shed some light on it.
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GODBOLT
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And can you?
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CRAVEN
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I can tell them what I've found out since she died... Which is quite a lot.
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GODBOLT
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It's the end of the road for me when this gets out.
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CRAVEN
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How did you get involved in the first place?
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GODBOLT
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It started back in the '60s. The Ministry of Defence took over the mines, started building storage facilities, needed miners to maintain them, someone in the union to look after the miners. I were picked. I signed the Official Secrets Act, and that part of my job wasn't mentioned outside of the executive committee. Over the years, Northmoor became an underground city. Then came the defence cuts, changes in strategy. MOD didn't need Northmoor any more, so they leased it to Bennett. I were part of the deal. I suddenly found myself dealing with a nuclear waste plant.
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CRAVEN
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That must have made life difficult.
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GODBOLT
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We had a national executive paranoid about nuclear power, and now we're wading knee-deep in the stuff.
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CRAVEN
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Was it Bennett who rigged the last union vote?
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