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Across 2 Nuclear force at work in beta decay ( 4 ) 3 Transport package type designed to withstand severe accidents ( 4,1 ) 7 see 5 down 8 International body which developed model radioactive transport regulations ( 4 ) 9 ( and 14 across ). Name of first SRP President ( 4 , 6 ) 11 UK ' s first nuclear powered submarine ( 11 ) 13 English pop band whose biggest hit included the lyric
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' Albert said that E = mc ' ( 9 ) 14 see 9 across 17 Radioactive element named after an azure blue planet ( 9 ) 18 Scotland ' s first nuclear power station ( 11 ) 22 Scotland ' s environmental regulator ( 4 ) 23 Unstable sub-atomic particles with a mass approximately 207 times that of an electron ( 5 ) 24 UK ' s nuclear regulator ( 3 ) 25 Solar system ' s nuclear fusion reactor ( 3 ) 26 MOD ' s nuclear regulator ( 4 )
Down 1 Scientist / Engineer and SI unit of magnetic flux density ( 5 ) 3 Town close to site of UK fast breeder reactor ( 6 ) 4 SRP 2021 Annual Conference location ( 11 ) 5 ( and 7 across ) – US rock band which had a hit with the song ' Radioactive ' ( 7,7 ) 6 See 20 down 10 Over 1100 deaths from lung cancer in UK each year estimated to be caused by this radioactive gas ( 5 ) 12 Element originally referenced in the definition of the Curie ( 6 ) 15 Small parts of tissue and storage areas for radioactive waste ( 5 ) 16 Radioactive element named after a Norse God ( 7 ) 18 Radioactive forms of this element released from Chernobyl caused problems in UK ( 7 ) 19 Birth country of only woman to win two Nobel prizes ( 6 ) 20 ( and 6 down ) The German ' Marie Curie ' who discovered nuclear fission ( 4,7 ) 21 Maiden name of pioneer medical physicist who developed the radioimmunoassay technique ( 7 )
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