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Current AffairsPasserby stumbles upon radioactive playground thanks to wristwatch

29-09-2011 16:31 | Christian Falvey

Photo: CTK 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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