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The Random Sample item, "Russians, U.S. differ on Arctic subthreat" (25 June, p. 1881) should have said that the Sellafieldnuclear reprocessing plant has dumped 1 million curies of cesium-137(not plutonium) into the North Sea. The plant has dumped morethan 18,000 curies of plutonium.