“Sand Winds” radiant in France !! from nuclear remnants in Algeria !!
The Association for the control of radioactivity in the west (ACRO) has carried out analyzes on the dust found on cars or even garden tables for a few days. These particles come from the Sahara and have a radioactive substance.
The French newspaper “France Bleu” revealed that the sandstorms coming from the desert to France recently, were carrying radioactive particles.
Where indicated Pierre Barbey, volunteer scientific advisor of the laboratory, this phenomenon is not new, with the waves of hot air coming from North Africa.
The association for the control of radioactivity in the West (ACRO), based in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, analyzed these substances in early February.
The laboratory discovered a radioactive component: Cesium 137. It can also be found around the Fukushima power station in Japan, for example, after the nuclear disaster of 2011. This substance remains in the air after an atomic explosion. It is an artificial radioelement which does not occur naturally in sand.
You have to go back to the very beginning of the sixties to understand its origin. At that time, several Western countries were carrying out atmospheric nuclear tests, especially in the northern hemisphere. France has done so in particular in the Algerian Sahara. Significant pollution was therefore dispersed in the air.
A few sand clouds, like those of recent days, have little effect on health. For the Calvados-based ACRO laboratory, these analyzes above all make it possible to show the damage still visible from nuclear tests. “The risks are for the sedentary or nomadic people of the Sahara region. They have this environment, which has been constantly polluted for a long time. We are only passing through”, continues Pierre Barbey.