Radioactive lightning rods removed

28/09/2016 - 00:00

Public Health and Social Protection

From the sixties to the eighties, thousands of radioactive lightning rods (lightning conductors) were installed in the former Yugoslavia. This was under the mistaken assumption that the higher energy of gamma emitters would make the rods work better.

Success story: Radioactive lightning rods removed

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Europe and Central Asia
Kosovo*
Montenegro
Republic of North Macedonia

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