The World - News from June 12, 1986
Faulty instruments apparently caused a mysterious high radiation reading at a coastal monitoring station near the Soviet Union, Finnish officials said. The monitoring station at the southern port of Kotka had a reading four times greater than any recorded in Finland since the April 26 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.
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