10 hit by traces of nuke killer.Byline: By LAURIE HANNA TEN people have signs of mild exposure to the radioactive substance that killed ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko (Russian: Александр Вальтерович , it was revealed yesterday. The former KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. colonel, who was a British citizen, died in a London hospital on November 23. The Health Protection Agency said no one with traces of polonium polonium (pəlō`nēəm), radioactive chemical element; symbol Po; at. no. 84; mass no. of most stable isotope 209; m.p. 254°C;; b.p. 962°C;; sp. gr. about 9.4; valence +2 or +4. 210 had been exposed to enough to cause immediate illness with risk of long term illness "very small". Seven who tested positive worked in the Pine Bar of London's Millennium Hotel where Mr Litvinenko went before he fell ill on November 1. The same day, Mr Litvinenko visited several places in the capital. Up to a dozen sites have been tested for polonium 210. An HPA spokeswoman said the risk to the public was "likely to be very low". She said 670 cases had been followed up. Five days ago Mario Scaramella, who met Mr Litvinenko before he fell ill, was arrested in Italy. It was not connected to Mr Litvinenko's murder. CAPTION(S): DEAD: Litvinenko |
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