Tuwaitha, Iraq Girl standing outside the Al-Majidat school for girls (900 pupils), next to the Tuwaitha nuclear facility. Greenpeace found levels of radioactivity up to 3.000 times higher than background levels at the school and cordonned the area off. Local people took radioactive materials from the site after occupying powers left it unsecured.
June 17, 2003
International

Tuwaitha, Iraq Girl standing outside the Al-Majidat school for girls (900 pupils), next to the Tuwaitha nuclear facility. Greenpeace found levels of radioactivity up to 3.000 times higher than background levels at the school and cordonned the area off. Local people took radioactive materials from the site after occupying powers left it unsecured.

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