France's air is deemed safe from radioactivity

A French nuclear safety agency announced that radiation levels in France were normal on Wednesday. Mildly radioactive winds were predicted to arrive in the Hexagon yesterday, as a result of Japan's nuclear accident in Fukushima.

Reuters

The Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (IRSN) said that no abnormal levels were detected on the whole of the Teleray alpine network, calling the levels “extremely low.”

The Teleray network consists of 170 fixed probes, which constantly monitor the intensity of gamma rays in ambient air.

Tests were administered through samples of atmospheric dust, rain water, grass, and cow’s and goat’s milk.

All of the tests resulted in levels “inferior to detection limits,” apart from the goat’s milk sample, which presented traces of caesium-137.

These traces can be linked back to the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, according to the IRSN.