Indonesian Region Evacuated Due to Radioactive Radiation
According to the English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr news Agency and al Mayadeen, Indonesian officials began relocating citizens from around an industrial zone after detecting contamination with the radioactive substance cesium-137.
The report states that the Indonesian government has also decontaminated 20 out of 22 facilities where traces of this material were found.
Bara Hasibuan, spokesperson for Indonesia’s Radioactive Contamination Task Force, told Reuters today that the government has commenced evacuations around this industrial region.
The contamination was first identified in a shipment of shrimp sent by an Indonesian company to the United States last August.
These measures followed discoveries of elevated levels of radiation from cesium-137, a radioactive industrial isotope, detected across a large industrial area near Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.
