Radioactive dump found near Congo river

Almost 20 tons of unidentified radioactive material have been found dumped in a river in southern Congo.

Radioactive dump found near Congo river

Almost 20 tons of unidentified radioactive material have been found dumped in a river in southern Congo.

It was discovered in Likasi, near the village of Shinkolobwe, which provided the uranium used by the United States in the atomic bombs it dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War.

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