Journalistic Investigations Center

A new incident with radioactive materials took place last week at Rîbniţa metallurgical plant. According to a release signed by the plant’s General Director, A. Costin, quoted by the local independent weekly “Dobriy deni” (Good Day), on 28 October, at 8.20 a.m., a device containing cesium-137 (Cs-137) was thrown by accident into the metal melting oven. This is the third such accident registered in the past three years at this plant. The substantial increase in the radioactive level at the plant was established by an employee who immediately informed the management. After a thorough control, the management, A. Costin says, informed the Tiraspol Hygiene and Epidemiology Center about what the incident. When making an analysis of the dust, the plant’s laboratory found in it an increased content of cesium-137 isotopes.  
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