Groundwater contaminated by radiation from nuclear testing days

Published by jalbertini on April 29th, 2017 in Military, Radiation.

Groundwater drunk by BILLIONS of people may be contaminated by radioactive material spread across the world by nuclear testing in the 1950s

Researchers looked at groundwater from over 6,000 wells around the globe
They found traces of radioactive tritium in over half of the wells
Even at low doses, tritium has been linked with increased risk of cancer

By Shivali Best For Mailonline

Published: 06:52 EDT, 25 April 2017 | Updated: 06:52 EDT, 25 April 2017

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