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> Also, the mutant sickly plants will be a good indicator.

The plants won't necessarily be sickly in 10,000 years. Tobacco shows substantial resistance to radioactivity, especially considering virtually all tobacco contains Po-210. It also survives with isotopes of Plutonium, Polonium 209 and Americanium... amongst many other radioactive elements it can pick up and thrive despite.



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