They couldn’t trace it backward to a source within the plant, and yet, given the weather conditions, radiation levels on the ground outside conformed to what they would expect of a major leak from one of the Forsmark reactors. At ten thirty, Sandstedt ordered approaches to the station sealed off. Local authorities issued a precautionary alert: a warning was broadcast on the radio instructing the population to keep its distance from Forsmark, and police set up roadblocks. Thirty minutes later, Robinson was still in the lab, at work on his new batch of samples, when he heard sirens sound
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