Uranium "tails" compared on background level to Bronze Horseman

The monument is more dangerous. Deputies Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg and members of public council of state corporation State corporation "Rosatom" checked observance of standards of safety when transporting uranium "tails" from Germany. Members of delegation following the results of visit of Big port declared that no excess of a radiation background is present. "The background near the container at distance slightly less than a meter – is eight times less, than at Bronze Horseman", – gives information agency "ITAR-TASS" words of the chairman of the constant commission on ecology and environmental management Gorodskoy parlament Maria Shcherbakova. It should be noted that at the container was...