China's Nuclear Safety Agency Responds to Russia Radiation Levels 6park.com
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China's nuclear safety authority says no abnormalities have been detected
in the border province just 20 miles from a Russian city that saw background
radiation levels shoot up 1,600-fold last week. 6park.com
The radiation spike prompted local officials to declare a state of
emergency in Khabarovsk, Russia's largest far-eastern city with a population of
about 630,000. 6park.com
Khabarovsk's mayor lifted the state of emergency on Tuesday, and the
source of radioactive contamination was transferred to competent authorities,
China's consulate in the city announced on WeChat. 6park.com
The news made waves online, leading some netizens to compare it to the
disaster that occurred in 1986 when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant in Ukraine exploded, releasing a massive amount of radioactive material
into the environment. 6park.com
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China's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) said Wednesday on
WeChat that the environmental department in the northeastern province of
Heilongjiang had been paying close attention to the situation. 6park.com
Meanwhile, the Heilongjiang Provincial Atmospheric Radiation Environment
Automatic Monitoring Station measured the local gamma radiation and collected
aerosol samples 24 hours a day over the past few days. 6park.com
The monitoring showed radiation to be within normal parameters, and no
abnormalities had been detected, the agency said. 6park.com
According to the Moscow Times, a local resident reported the potentially
dangerous situation after noticing elevated radiation levels near a metal
depot. Officials then cordoned off an area of about 9,700 square feet. 6park.com
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Khabarovsk, Russia, on
May 20, 2020. On April 9, Russian media reported radiation levels 1,600 higher
than normal had been detected the previous week, prompting a state of emergency
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Russian state news outlet Tass reported that the source of the radiation
was a capsule from a flawed detector and that it had been disposed of by a
company that handles nuclear waste. 6park.com
On Tuesday, the disaster relief authorities in Khabarovsk detected
radiation levels of between 0.09 and 0.13 microsieverts per hour—within normal
parameters, the Chinese consulate cited them as saying. 6park.com
The microsievert (µSv) is a unit of measurement used to measure the
absorbed dose of ionizing radiation in human tissue, or radiation that has
enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, potentially
damaging cells and DNA. 6park.com
The effects of exposure depend on factors like the type of radiation, the
dose received, and the duration of exposure. 6park.com
The Latvia-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta said volunteers belonging to a
radiation control group had detected 800 microsieverts per hour at the peak of
radioactivity. 6park.com
A level of 0.5 microsieverts per hour is considered safe for the general
public, meaning the radiation detected was 1,600 times higher. 6park.com
 
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