An international team of climatologists discovered that the Sahara dust, which arrived in Europe in March 2022, contained radioactive isotopes. Although it was initially thought that the source was French nuclear testing in Algeria, it turned out that the traces of plutonium originated from U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests during the Cold War. Analysis of the dust samples determined that the level of radioactivity does not pose a health risk according to European Union standards. While radioactivity is not an issue, Sahara dust represents an ec
Sahara dust in Europe has US/USSR nuclear test isotopes.
