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A state of emergency has been declared in a Russian city due to nuclear contamination.
Russian authorities have not explained what is causing the alarming radiation at the specialized ‘Radon’ plant in Khabarovsk, southeastern Russia.
A mysterious radiation source was today “removed and placed in a protective container” and “transported to a radioactive waste storage facility.”
However, the state of emergency will remain for at least three more days in the city’s Industrialny district as law enforcement agencies examine the source of the leak.
It seems that it took a week for the authorities to act.
A state of emergency has been declared in Khabarovsk, southeastern Russia, following a radiation leak from a specialized plant called ‘Radon’.
A man wearing a nuclear protective mask is seen in the dark with a rapidly rising radiation reader as he walks over a ‘waste dump’.
Access to the area in question has been restricted while specialists work to locate the source of the radiation.
A man wearing a nuclear protective mask with a rapidly rising radiation reader is seen in the dark as he walks over a “waste dump.”
Your reader sounded the alarm at 0.45 microsieverts and the highest reading visible on the screen is 5.99.
However, in the video the man says there was a reading of 20, enough to potentially increase the risk of cancer, damage DNA, cause fetal harm and threaten the health of children.
Surprisingly, the potentially lethal radiation leak in Khabarovsk became known about a week before any action was taken or the public was alerted, according to reports.
A “boy” who made an initial reading on March 28 had reported it to the Russian special services, but until today the state of emergency was not declared.
Andrey Kolchin, the city’s civil defense chief, said: ‘A source of elevated levels of radiation was discovered… the area was cordoned off.
“It was decided to declare a state of emergency in Khabarovsk to speed up the work.”
Authorities insisted there was no danger to life.
“The radiation source was removed, placed in a protective container and transported to a radioactive waste storage facility,” said a source at the Radon nuclear agency.
“There is no environmental pollution or threat to society.”
Khabarovsk, near the border with China, has a population of 630,000.