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pathdependent on July 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Compu...

I think the article was OCR'd. There were a few other mistakes that were clearly misinterpreted characters. I think the 1 in the thousands place is actually a comma on the source.

merraksh on July 6, 2014 [–]

Good point. There are many hints that article was OCR'd, for instance an ".4ECL" instead of "AECL".

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