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Villagers in India are worried that recent deadly floods are the result of plutonium hidden in the Himalayas.
The CIA lost the plutonium after a secret mission to monitor China’s nuclear program.
Although unlikely, it’s an example of how fearful people are of nuclear materials.
Villagers are blaming a long-abandoned cache of plutonium for deadly floods in India’s Himalaya mountains.
The plutonium, which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) abandoned in the 1960s, was meant to power sensors designed to monitor Chinese nuclear tests. While villagers in the vicinity blame the plutonium for floods that have killed scores of people, the missing radioactive material most likely isn’t the cause.