RUSSIA: QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT SOURCE OF RADIOACTIVITY IN LOCAL RIVERS.(Brief Article)

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The U.S. and Russian groups link the radioactivity to the former secret city of Tomsk-7, or Seversk, but argue that the levels of radioactivity are so high that they cannot come from a nuclear power plant or have been generated in normal reprocessing, according to A...

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