Incineration plant "Energy" recorded elevated levels of radiation in one of its garbage trucks.

As the company Kyivenergo reported, on October 3 at incineration plant "Energy" worked out equipment "Kordon", which checks the garbage to radiation contamination.

With the passage of the input control to garbage was recorded radiation level 53.8 microroentgens per hour instead of the maximum allowable of 30 microroentgens per hour.

Garbage truck with radiation waste was transported to a special parking area and on October 4 commission of specialists from the Ministry of Emergencies and sanitary services has identified an immediate source of radiation, wich background radiationis 200 times higher than normal and was 6000 microroentgens per hour.

Garbage was disposed of properly at the enterprise Radon.

Equipment for radiation monitoring "Kordon" at the "Energy" was established in summer 2009 due to investment program of Kyivenergo.

The report highlights that since the installation of RKS-02 radiometer "Kordon" five times the recorded radiaсtive garbage.

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