TOKYO: Radioactive plutonium particles from US nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific some 50 years ago have been detected for the first time in Japanese waters, researchers said yesterday.
The particles were found in soil samples from Sagami Bay, about 50km southwest of Tokyo, researchers at the National Institute of Radiological Science said.
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