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Neumann boundary condition is not satisfied

I want to solve the diffusion equation on a disk centered at (0,0) with a radius of 1. I also want the flux at a radius of 0.8 to be zero. I have this initial condition at time zero:

u[x, y, 0] == Exp[(-x^2 - y^2)/0.01] + 10*Exp[-(((x - 1)^2 + (y)^2)/0.01)]

The initial condition looks like this:

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The solution after time 50 looks like this:

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The problem is that I expected because the flux is zero at radius of 0.8 then at the distance more than 0.8 from the origin the value of variable u[x,y,t] should be different from that of at distances shorter than 0.8. However, everything looks equilibrated.

Here is the whole code:

sol = NDSolveValue[{
        Laplacian[u[x, y, t], {x, y}] == [u[x, y, t], t] + 
          NeumannValue[0., {x, y} ∈ RegionDifference[Disk[{0, 0}, 1], Disk[{0, 0}, 0.8]]],
        u[x, y, 0] == Exp[(-x^2 - y^2)/0.01] + 10*Exp[-(((x - 1)^2 + y^2)/0.01)]},
       u, {x, y} ∈ Disk[{0, 0}, 1],
       {t, 0, 50}
      ]

Plot3D[sol[x, y, 0], {x, y} ∈ Disk[{0, 0}, 1], PlotRange -> All]

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