GROZNY. Nov 20 (Interfax-AVN) - Specialists of the Krasnodar-based Radiation Control enterprise completed decontamination works at the cement plant in the Chiri-Yurt village in Chechnya's Shali district, Chechen Emergencies Minister Colonel Ruslan Avtayev, said on Tuesday.
The specialists found 18 sources of ionizing emission, not six as it had been reported earlier, with the total capacity of 15,350 microroentgen per hour, Avtayev told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Moreover, they found 17 special containers for transportation of radiation devices weighing 55kg each. The containers contained ionizing emission sources too.
According to Avtayev, competent bodies are trying to find out how those dangerous sources could appear at the plant's territory.
All exposed radiation sources and 7,100t of contaminated ground were taken to the radiation waste burial near the Tolstoi-Yurt village of the breakaway republic.
In February 2001 specialists of the enterprise deactivated 16 powerful ionizing emission sources located at the chemical integrated works, the Krasny Molot plant and a Grozny secondary school.