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25 years on, Chernobyl food still contaminated [1]

Kiev (Ukraine): Greenpeace said hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are still eating food contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion a quarter-century after the blast.

In a report, the environmental group said samples of milk,berries,potatoes and root vegetables in two Ukrainian regions show unacceptably high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 from

Publication Date: 
06/04/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Food Contamination [3], Radioactive Waste [4], Nuclear Waste [5], Japan [6], Ukraine [7]
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