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Current AffairsPasserby stumbles upon radioactive playground thanks to wristwatch
A playground in the central Prague neighbourhood of Podolí has been
crowded with, not children, but radiation specialists since Wednesday
evening, when the park was found to have up to a five times the normal
levels of background radioactivity. On Thursday that reading was raised to
1000 times normal levels at the various source points under the earth.
While it is not necessarily dangerous – unless one were to stand over the
source for an hour or more – authorities rushed to identify what could
possibly be causing the radioactivity, finding a radon needle of the sort
once used for cancer treatment. Meanwhile discovery of the radiation was as
unusual as the fact itself. Computer engineer Pavel Bykov, happened to be
the right man in the right place: More


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