The charity announced the total at an event on board HMS Defender, a type 45 destroyer, at BAE Systems in Scotstoun, Glasgow.

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The estimate so far is that the total release from the event is roughly one-sixth of what was released at Chernobyl.

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The trio headed Musa Obaid Amer, himself a former Kenyan now representing Qatar, over the line to maintain the African country's almost total dominance of the event.

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