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How one reporter revealed dangerous levels of radioactivity in groundwater

Summary by healthjournalism.org
In April 2025, The Toledo Blade published a groundbreaking investigation revealing dangerously high levels of radioactivity in groundwater across Luckey, Ohio — a village shadowed by its Cold War-era legacy.  The newspaper’s independent testing uncovered alarming concentrations of bismuth-214, which decays from the radioactive gas radon-222, in water samples from public locations such as Eastwood Middle School, Luckey Library and local athletic …
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healthjournalism.org broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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