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ARGON, Krypton and Xeon sound like baddies from a sci-fi comic.

In fact, they are the names of the radioactive gases that leaked out of a naval nuclear reactor in the north of Scotland two years ago.

The Scottish Government were not informed. That means the Scottish people were kept in the dark, too.

What a total lack of respect.

The Ministry of Defence seem to have engineered a major cover-up of the leak from the Vulcan plant in Caithness.

They told our own Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) not to share the information back in 2012. And the lies continued last week.

Westminster Tory defence secretary Philip Hammond told Westminster that no pollution had been caused by the leak.

No pollution except a tenfold spike in the said argon, krypton and xeon levels.

Nasty stuff.

The MoD, though, have form when it comes to deception in Scotland.

Dalgety Bay in Fife was contaminated by radioactive material that the MoD dumped decades ago.

Hundreds of particles were discovered on the beach by SEPA scientists – some so dangerous that they would burn the skin

if touched.

The MoD’s own experts refused to investigate the beach in the past, for fear they would get ill.

But the ministry wouldn’t accept responsibility for the contamination, something condemned by the SNP MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Annabelle Ewing.

Annabelle has also revealed how Westminster knew of the contamination half-a-century ago but kept it secret.

Meanwhile, down in the south of the country, the MoD have been dumping thousands of depleted uranium weapons in the Solway Firth.

Army tanks use the military range at Dundrennan, near Kirkcudbright, to fire the shells into the sea.

More than 6700 shells, containing nearly 30 tonnes of depleted uranium, which has been linked to cancer and birth defects in Iraq, have been fired from the range.

Meanwhile, at the other side of the country, it has been discovered that the MoD blocked a development that could have created hundreds of jobs on the Clyde.

Secret files uncovered by the South of Scotland MSP Chic Brodie revealed that the ministry prevented oil exploration south of Arran in the 1980s.

Three firms, including BP and the then state-owned British National Oil Corporation, carried out seabed surveys east of Kintyre in early 1981.

BP applied for a production licence in the same year but the MoD asked for no drilling rigs in this area.

The defence chiefs made it clear that they would not tolerate anything that interfered with their activities.

That’s what Scotland is to them.

A place to be used, abused and abandoned in pursuit of war games.

But never told the truth.