Radioactive scrap metal found in Batumi Port

The staff of the Batumi port has been evacuated after the experts confirmed radiation in the scrap metal in the port. The brigades of the emergency service are working in the port, the additional groups of experts have been sent from Tbilisi to Batumi. The port has been closed and people are prohibited to enter its territory.

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იაპონიაში 11 მარტს მომხდარ დამანგრეველ მიწისძვრას და ცუნამს მოჰყვა რიგი აფეთქებები ფუკუშიმა 1–ის ატომურ ელექტროსადგურზე და რადიაქტიური ნივთიერებების გაჟონვა ატმოსფეროში. საქართველოში ამის თაობაზე დაბეჭდილი სტატიების უმეტესობა სპეკულირებს იდეით, რომ რადიაციის “მოღწევა” საქართველომდე “პრაქტიკულად შეუძლებელია, მაგრამ თეორიულად დასაშვებია.” თუმცა რა აძლევთ შესაძლებლობას ამ სტატიების ავტორებს გამოიტანონ ეს დასკვნები გაუგებარია.

Container of Cesium-137 found in Tbilisi

A container of radioactive substances was found Friday in the centre of Tbilisi. Law enforcers seized caesium 137 in 15 Lermontov Street. The container of the dangerous substances was kept in the Kisishvili family.

Head of the family Jemal Kisishvili and his wife are being interrogated now. Exact amount of teh substances is unknown yet. It is also uncertain how the container, seized by law enforcers, got in the Kisishvili family.

Radioactive remains found on Makhata Hill, Tbilisi

The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Goga Khachidze visited the settlement on Makhata Hill, where the radiation experts found the remains of radioactive substance Radium 226.

Minister was accompanied by the workers of the Nuclear and Radiation Security Service on the territory called `Arsenal` under the request of the local population, who complained about the possibility that the territory might be polluted with radioactive substances. It turned out that the locals really had reason to worry.

"Forgotten" Radioactive Material Turns Up in Georgian Lab

A plutonium-beryllium cache was apparently "forgotten" for 42 years before turning up recently at a research facility in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, Bloomberg reported today (see GSN, June 23).

The material was discovered inside a “special container stored in wax and lead, which was quite safe and presented no danger for the environment,” said Giorgi Nabakhtiani, a nuclear expert with Georgia's Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ministry.