In Pulkovo, 450 grams of radioactive minerals from Africa were seized from a foreigner.
Customs officials at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg discovered radioactive natural minerals with a total weight of 450 grams in the luggage of a 43-year-old foreigner who arrived from one of the African countries transiting through Istanbul. This was reported by the press service of the Federal Customs Service of Russia.
Among personal belongings, inspectors found a bag with stones of different shapes and sizes. A portable radiometer-spectrometer showed that the radiation background of the content is several times higher than the permissible values.
According to the stranger, he is studying at one of the universities in St. Petersburg and brought samples of minerals to prepare his final project. The information is immediately sent to Rospotrabendzor. The radionuclide radium-226 was detected in the samples. The gamma radiation dose on the surface of the package reached 8.19 μSv/h.
Federal Customs Service of Russia.
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