Saharan Dust Storms Are Bringing Radiation Back To France Because Karma Is Real

“What goes around comes around” is a saying implying a person will have to deal with the consequences of their actions sooner or later. However, in this recent incident, you can take this saying word by word. According to a report from a French NGO ACRO, a cloud of radioactive dust is coming back to France like a boomerang.

In the 1960s, France carried out nuclear testing in the Saharan desert. The radiation isn't considered dangerous for human health, but the incident is considered ironic.

ACRO claims that cesium-137, a product of nuclear fission generated in nuclear explosions, is returned to France in clouds of dust. The NGO came to this conclusion following tests on recent Saharan dust it took in Jura, which is near the French border with Switzerland. The organization said:

“Considering homogeneous deposits in a wide area, based on this analytical result, ACRO estimates there was 80,000 bq per sq km (1 sq mi = 2.6 sq km) of cesium-137.”

“This radioactive contamination, which comes from far away, 60 years after the nuclear explosions, reminds us of the perennial radioactive contamination in the Sahara, for which France is responsible.”

Professor Pedro Salazar Carballo from the University of Laguna, who’s responsible for testing the dust, said that the substance is completely safe. He tested the dust brought to France by strong storms last year that got many airports closed.

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