Indonesia probes suspected nuclear waste dumping at housing estate

Mongabay
Feb 19, 2020, 9:55 am243 pts
JAKARTA — Authorities in Indonesia have launched an investigation following the discovery of radioactive contamination in an empty lot in a housing complex near a nuclear research facility. The Nuclear Energy Regulatory Agency, or Bapeten, recorded elevated levels of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 from a…

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