http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/...adiation.shtml Quote:
Chechen prosecutors are investigating reports of high radiation levels at a factory in the republic.
They said the radiation posed a danger to people living near it in the Chechen capital of Grozny, AP reported.
According to Russian television reports, the radioactive levels at the factory were 58,000 times higher than normal levels, half those recorded at the Chernobyl plant catastrophe in 1986.
The case has raised fears militants could use radioactive waste to build a crude nuclear bomb.
Chechen prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov was quoted by the agency as saying the failure to remove the radioactive material or isolate access to the plant had made it “a threat to the population”. He called this a “catastrophic radioactivity situation.”
“It is a threat to the population because the management of the plant is taking no steps whatsoever to remove the radioactive material or isolate access to the plant,” he added.
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Of all places for this material to be readily available this is not one that is comforting to hear about.