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Russian village reports radioactivity 986 times above normal
short by Ankush Verma / on Tuesday, 21 November, 2017
A village in Russia's Chelyabinsk has registered "extremely high pollution" of radioisotope Ru-106, exceeding natural background radiation pollution by 986 times, Russia's meteorological service said. It confirmed that "extremely high" concentrations of Ru-106 were found in several parts of the country in late September. This follows French reports claiming that a nuclear accident had taken place.
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