(Original headline: I'm a nuclear material girl )
Pop diva Madonna believes a magic potion can solve the problem of nuclear waste.
The American superstar and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie lobbied the Government to neutralise radioactive dangers with the mystery fluid.
The celebrity couple, who have homes in London and Wiltshire, believe the water-based substance has neutralised a radioactive lake in Russia.
Both devotees of Kabbalah, the pair approached Downing Street, Whitehall and British Nuclear Fuels eagerly backing the fluid.
According to the Jewish spiritual movement water is a uniquely important substance which can be imbued with magic healing powers through meditation.
Based in California, Kabbalah was set up by former insurance salesman Philip Berg in Los Angeles.
Civil servants at the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) were forced to take the celebrity couple’s claims seriously.
However a panel of BNFL experts failed to find any scientific evidence to back up the claims.
An official said: “It was like a crank call.... the scientific mechanisms and principles were just b******s basically.”
It is understood the singer approached Downing Street where she was referred to the DTI.
A former DTI civil servant said: “She relentlessly pursued people. She wanted to get this Russian scientist to explain this to civil servants.”
Guy Ritchie called BNFL and wrote several letters along with scientific papers as part of his wife’s campaign a few years ago.
At the time she believed her mission was to solve the problem of nuclear waste.
Undercover reports claim to have seen Madonna and Ritchie at a Kabbalah Centre dinner in London joining in chanting to combat nuclear waste.
Followers call the name of Chernobyl and other nuclear plant names in the belief it will ‘heal’ the problem.
Three years ago a research centre called Oroz, believed to have been sponsored by Kabbalah, claimed it had experimented with a “revolutionary” decontaminant called Orodyne.
Grand claims for Orodyne are not only that it can treat gynaecological problems in cows and sheep but that it has decontaminated water in Lake Glyboke near Chernobyl.
BNFL admits it was approached by a Mr Ritchie.
A spokesman for British Nuclear Group said: “If Mr Ritchie, or anyone else for that matter, has such a solution we would be more than happy to speak to them.”
Madonna is currently touring in Germany and unable to comment.
