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Tiny amounts of radiation from Japan reach Nevada

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Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear plant have reached Las Vegas, but scientists say it poses no health risk.

 

Ted Hartwell of the Desert Research Institute's Community Environmental Monitoring Program says extremely small amounts of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131 and zenon-133 reached a Las Vegas monitoring station this week. (AP)

 

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