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Ottawa, Canada – Radioactive Material Found at Municipal Sewage Plant

City of Ottawa officials insist the quality of the city’s drinking water is safe despite the discovery of radioactive material at the municipal sewage treatment plant.

City officials confirm a batch of sludge from the city’s east-end treatment plant contains a low level of radioactivity.

A special hazardous waste team is now on-site trying to find the source of the radioactivity. [...]