Radioactive Parcel Intercepted at Moscow Airport

April 7, 2017

The Russian Postal and Federal Customs Services intercepted a radioactive parcel at a logistics center at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport and sent it to a special facility for disposal on Thursday.
The discovery was made “during a check of mail to be delivered outside Russia,” the Russian Post’s press-service told TASS news agency.

As the Yantar radiation control system was scanning one of the parcels, it registered “gamma rays exceeding the maximum permissible radiation background by dozens of times,” it said.

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