The Ministry of Defence is searching for a publicly acceptable solution for disposing of 27 highly radioactive submarine reactors, each twice as high as a double decker bus.
In a clear acknowledgment that it is running out of time and space to moor the redundant submarines, the MoD consulted the residents of two dockyard towns about what to do with the rusting hulks that were once the pride of the Royal Navy.
Seven hulks are at Rosyth dockyard in Fife and four at Devonport in Plymouth. They have had the nuclear fuel rods taken out but remain potentially dangerous and everyone accepts that they cannot be left to rot.
The urgency is that more of the 16 nuclear submarines still at sea are coming to the end of their lives and by 2012 there will be no mooring space left.
The answer.........................Put all this junk at Kinloss
The radiation may mutate the locals back to humans.