You reap what you sow, they say, but oftentimes that doesn t prove to be true. Now, a French NGO ACRO is reporting that a cloud of radioactive dust is returning to France like a boomerang.
#SaharanDust clearing from central/eastern Europe before a new plume crosses Spain, France, UK & Ireland over next few days. @CopernicusECMWF Atmosphere Monitoring Service @ECMWF aerosol optical depth forecast initialized 27 Feb 00 UTC https://t.co/Zcv8RWt2P3pic.twitter.com/Puk1hiwfWj Mark Parrington (@m parrington) February 27, 2021
The country conducted nuclear testing back in the 1960s in the Saharan desert. The radiation is not considered dangerous for human health it is however considered ironic.
Sahara dust in Europe has traces of 1960s-era nuclear radiation
Nathan Howes
Sunday, March 7th 2021, 12:08 pm - ACRO acknowledged that the Feb. 6 event had very low radioactive pollution levels, but will still add to the previous deposits seen from the nuclear tests in the 1960s and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Dust from the Sahara Desert that recently pushed into Europe brought an unexpected surprise with it residues of radioactive pollution that is linked to the atomic bomb tests carried out by France in the 1960s.
Analyzations carried out by the French non-governmental association ACRO (Association for Control of Radioactivity in the West) shows that the dust contains traces of the radiation and is still observable at long distances 60 years later.