Plot

University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.—Anonymous

Doomwatch was a UK Sci-Fi show of the 60-70's that consisted of a group of scientists who investigated phenomena and their causes. Things like spillage of growth hormones in to the sea affecting local population etc. In 1990 they made a movie bringing the last of the old team back in the following story. Neil Tannahill a University lecturer is asked by the former head of Doomwatch (now very old and dying) to investigate the strange happenings at a remote nuclear facility. Dangerous nuclear waste from around the world is being transported to this location for 'storage'.. and nobody is willing to say how this waste is being stored or disposed of. A investigative reporter seeking a story see's the waste being loaded into the facility, plus an accidental spillage, and strange blue glow coming from the building. He is found and meets an untimely end by being handcuffed to his bicycle and dropped into the nearby lake - and drowned. Neil arrives on the scene and finds that something is going very wrong - and that the facilities staff are desperate for his help. The research staff - whilst experimenting with particle physics - have created a tiny black hole - which they have contained in a magnetic field. They have also been feeding it all of the nuclear waste and other unwanted chemicals as the perfect clean solution, because nothing comes out of a black hole. Unfortunately something went wrong and the magnetic containment is loosing it's grip on the black hole - hence the staff's worry and the effects of the blue radioactive glow. Neil surmises that the block hole has 'flipped' its magnetic polarity and the only way to bring it back under control is to tap the UK power grid and drag enough power to use the magnetic field to flip the black hole back again. The facilities administrator - who was quiet happy to get a lot of money for disposing of the waste - is frantic because he is concerned what the cost of this power drain will cost - and loudly vocalizes this concern. However it is done, the black hole is once again brought under control.. The administrator is ecstatic that "The problem is now over and things can continue as normal", however Neil gives him the chilling facts.. "It's not over. It is never over. You cannot dispose of a black hole when you don't want it any more, It's there.. and it will always be there.. and the next time might just kill the planet"—Marcwolf