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# Deeper Underground

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'This is the James Bond style entrance': The ESB plant that's hidden deep inside a Wicklow mountain

We were given a tour of the site’s reservoirs and tunnels to find out how it all works.

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Aug 11th 2018, 9:00 PM

No treasure found in dig for legendary gold-filled Nazi train

Rumours persist that the train is buried in an underground tunnel.

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Dec 15th 2015, 4:35 PM

This robot just filmed what it's like inside a melted nuclear reactor

The Fukushima plant suffered a triple meltdown in 2011.

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Apr 14th 2015, 9:30 PM

Eirgrid to examine putting electrical wires underground

The plan will mean no pylons on a stretch of the Grid West project.

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Jun 23rd 2014, 10:04 PM