Monday, 6 February 2012A fire has been reported at a former nuclear research center in the Russian capital, Moscow.
Officials of the Emergency Situations Ministry said there were no open flames and no threat of a radiation leak from the non-operational, 60-year-old reactor housed at the institute.
No casualties were reported.
State-run ITAR-TASS quoted an unnamed source at the institute who said by late afternoon the fire had been extinguished.
The environmental group Greenpeace Russia expressed serious concern about the incident. |
Monday, 6 February 2012
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