RADIOACTIVE BOX FOUND

["Gerry Blackwood" <gpblackwood@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Thursday, Apr. 22, 2004. Page 4

News in Brief



RADIOACTIVE BOX FOUND

MOSCOW (AP) -- A container emitting strong radioactivity was found along

a highway in western Siberia, an Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman

said Wednesday.



The container, about 20 centimeters square, was found along the highway

between Yekaterinburg and Tyumen on Tuesday, ministry spokesman Viktor

Beltsov said. The container was emitting radiation at a level of 2,800

microroentgens, he said. Natural background radiation in that region of

Russia is about 50 microroentgens.



There were no immediate details on what substance it may have contained

or on its origin.



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