The tall concrete vent stack, which filtered radiation from air released from the plant, demonstrates the difficulty ahead for PG & E . The inside of the base of the stack, where its contamination is the heaviest, is saturated with cesium _ the same element found in radioactive fallout from bombs _ at 100, 000 times the level found naturally in the surrounding ground.
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The tall concrete vent stack, which filtered radiation from air released from the plant, demonstrates the difficulty ahead for PG & AMP; E . The inside of the base of the stack, where its contamination is the heaviest, is saturated with cesium _ the same element found in radioactive fallout from bombs _ at 100, 000 times the level found naturally in the surrounding ground.