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Locals eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl: Greenpeace tests
2016-03-09 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Economic crises convulsing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus mean testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been cut or restricted, Greenpeace said, and people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels. According to scientific tests conducted on behalf of the environmental campaigning group, overall contamination from key isotopes such as caesium-137 and strontium-90 has fallen somewhat, but lingers, especially in places such as forests. People...
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