A special commission has begun investigating circumstances of radioactive cargo shipment to the port of Vladivostok, the press service of the Far Eastern customs department said according to RZD-Partner referring to ITAR-TASS.
The commission includes customs officers, experts of the Russian consumers’ rights watchdog, of civil defence and emergency situations units and of the service for environmental, technological and nuclear supervision.
On Thursday, customs officers during supervision and control of cargo found two containers, whose ionising radiation level exceeded natural radiation background twenty times.
Under the customs shipping forms the cargo contained concentrated ore delivered from Australia to be shipped to Kazakhstan via the Russian territory.
The containers’ owner has not yet provided documents confirming the cargo’s high ionising radiation level.
The containers were seized and tugged to a special ground.
The commission includes customs officers, experts of the Russian consumers’ rights watchdog, of civil defence and emergency situations units and of the service for environmental, technological and nuclear supervision.
On Thursday, customs officers during supervision and control of cargo found two containers, whose ionising radiation level exceeded natural radiation background twenty times.
Under the customs shipping forms the cargo contained concentrated ore delivered from Australia to be shipped to Kazakhstan via the Russian territory.
The containers’ owner has not yet provided documents confirming the cargo’s high ionising radiation level.
The containers were seized and tugged to a special ground.