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Hundreds of tons of radioactive waste from Britain's nuclear bomb tests have been secretly shipped back to this country and buried.

About 338 tons of sand, topsoil, metal debris, asbestos and lead were scooped up from Christmas Island in the South Pacific in 2008.

It was taken to a landfill site at Port Clarence on Teesside in a multi-millionpound clean-up operation. Nuke test veterans, many who suffered radiationrelated diseases, are furious. John Smith, 77, who lives near the dump and witnessed tests in 1958, said: "I thought I'd left all this behind - it's like it has followed me home after all these years."

The MoD says the "slightly elevated" radiation levels in 30 tons of the waste comes from small luminous dials in military vehicles rather than fallout, and the other 300 tons are unaffected.

Mp Alex Cunningham has called for an inquiry.