Dust in the attics of old houses in Las Vegas contains fallout left over from
nuclear tests in the 1950s. James Cizdziel at the University of Nevada in Las
Vegas, who collected the samples, says the dust is no longer dangerous. But he
claims it could help determine how much radiation people were exposed to at the
time of the tests.
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