Increased levels of radiation were detected Oct 28 on the premises of a physicochemical laboratory of the State Emergencies Service’s Central Geophysical Observatory.
UNIAN: Increased radiation levels recorded in Kyiv lab
A guard opens the gate to the Belarussian radiation ecology reserve near the 30-km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, close to the village of Kazhushki, some 350 km southeast of Belarus capital Minsk, 04 April 2006. One quarter of Belarus' territory was severely contaminated and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes as radiation from Chernobyl spread throughout the area in April 1986. The 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident falls on 26 April 2006.
