Lucker
09-18-2009, 05:11 AM
What is this all about ?
Anybody aware of dodgy people who have recently been in the Kiev area ?
Theft of radioactive scrap metal from Chernobyl zone thwarted by Ukraine’s Security Service
The State Security Service (SBU) of Ukraine has thwarted smugglers' efforts to remove some 25 tons of radioactive scrap metal from the Chornobyl disaster zone, Ukrainian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
Four police officers have been arrested in connection with the incident and an investigation is under way, radio notes.
The SBU spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko said the impounded material's level of radioactivity is 13 times the allowable level, according to RFE/RL Ukrainian Service.
Anybody aware of dodgy people who have recently been in the Kiev area ?
Theft of radioactive scrap metal from Chernobyl zone thwarted by Ukraine’s Security Service
The State Security Service (SBU) of Ukraine has thwarted smugglers' efforts to remove some 25 tons of radioactive scrap metal from the Chornobyl disaster zone, Ukrainian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports.
Four police officers have been arrested in connection with the incident and an investigation is under way, radio notes.
The SBU spokeswoman Marina Ostapenko said the impounded material's level of radioactivity is 13 times the allowable level, according to RFE/RL Ukrainian Service.