Italian authorities on Saturday secured 10,000 tons of wood pellets thought to be laced with a radioactive isotope, the Associated Press reported (GSN, March 30).
Traces of the cancer-causing substance cesium 137 was discovered on a shipment of wood pellets from Lithuania. Authorities said the pellets, considered to be an environmentally sound fuel alternative for furnaces and stoves, were not hazardous on their own but could release toxic material into the air when burned.
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