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Publish date: July 28, 2008
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Viktor Shamayev, press secretary for Vladivostok customs said that soon after the plane from Seoul landed, passengers went through customs and proceeded to fill out their landing documents. At this point, an alarm signal went off, alerting security to a rise in the radiation level in the customs hall.
Customs officials trolled the crows with Geiger counters and found the source of radiation – a woman who had been undergoing treatment with a radio-pharmaceutical in South Korea.
The woman was briefly detained, and released after the Russian Federal Consumer Rights and Health Control Service had been notified, Gazeta.ru reported.
An accident aboard numerous Volgoneft oil tankers in the Kerch in mid December clearly show what can happen to aged ships when they are operated in bad weather—and when economic and military objectives are prioritized over the lives of crews and environmental safety.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution and climate change.
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A visit last week by Vladimir Putin and a Kremlin entourage to Astana, Kazakhstan sought in part to put Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation, on good footing with local officials.