KYIV, Apr. 13 – A case with radioactive material, stolen three days ago at Ukraine’s giant alumina refinery, the Mykolaiv Alumina Plant, was found safe and undamaged late Wednesday, a MAP spokesman said on Thursday, according to Platt’s commodity news.
The case, if opened, could have led to radioactive contamination of up to 100 square meters.
Hundreds of security and police officials had been engaged in a search operation to locate the stolen case.
MAP said the case was stolen by one of the plant’s workers, whose name MAP did not disclose, and that individual has now been detained by police.
The radioactive material is used in adjusting and testing measurement devices and equipment used by MAP engineers, the report said.
