Plutonium found in groundwater

London - Minute particles of plutonium have been found in groundwater more than a kilometre from the Nevada nuclear test site…

London - Minute particles of plutonium have been found in groundwater more than a kilometre from the Nevada nuclear test site where the US conducted more than 800 underground nuclear tests, American scientists reported yesterday.

Writing in the scientific journal Nature, the team of scientists in California said their experiments suggested that tiny quantities of radioactive waste could be absorbed and transported in groundwater even when nuclear tests were conducted in rocks deep underground.

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