Popstar Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have been lobbying the U.K. government and nuclear industry over a scheme to clean up radioactive waste with a supposedly magic Kabbalah fluid. The couple, both followers of the Jewish spiritual movement, approached Downing Street, Whitehall and British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) promoting a “mystical” liquid tested in a Ukrainian lake. “It was like a crank call… the scientific mechanisms and principles were just bollocks, basically,” one official said. The Kabbalah Centre, which is based in Los Angeles but has branches worldwide, was set up by Philip Berg, a former insurance salesman. One devotee has described how Berg leads chants of “Chernobyl” and the names of other nuclear power plants. Followers believe this helps “heal the problem of nuclear waste”. Undercover reporters who attended a Kabbalah Centre dinner in London described how Madonna and Ritchie were among guests who turned east towards Chernobyl and began shouting its name.