Friday, December 1 , 2017 - 4:42 (EEST) Section: Geo TV (Pakistan)
PARIS: France has stopped a large shipment of Belarus mushrooms contaminated with low-level radioactivity probably from Chernobyl and not linked to a radioactive cloud that appeared in southern Russia last month, officials said on Thursday.Earlier, Pierre-Franck Chevet — the head of French nuclear regulator ASN — told the French Senate that traces of caesium had been found on imported mushrooms from Russia but did not mention Belarus.A spokesman for French nuclear safety institute IRSN said a few days ago, customs officials found that a 3.5-tonne shipment of Belarus mushrooms — coming through Frankfurt, Germany — was contaminated with caesium 137,
Source: Geo TV
Friday, December 1 , 2017 - 4:42 (EEST) Section: Geo TV (Pakistan)
PARIS: France has stopped a large shipment of Belarus mushrooms contaminated with low-level radioactivity probably from Chernobyl and not linked to a radioactive cloud that appeared in southern Russia last month, officials said on Thursday.Earlier, Pierre-Franck Chevet — the head of French nuclear regulator ASN — told the French Senate that traces of caesium had been found on imported mushrooms from Russia but did not mention Belarus.A spokesman for French nuclear safety institute IRSN said a few days ago, customs officials found that a 3.5-tonne shipment of Belarus mushrooms — coming through Frankfurt, Germany — was contaminated with caesium 137,
Source: Geo TV
