Evacuation of an area in Indonesia due to radioactive radiation – Mehr News agency RCO News Agency

According to Mehr news agency, citing Al Mayadeen, the Indonesian authorities, after learning that an industrial area was coaminated with the radioactive substance “Caesium-137”, moved citizens from around this area.
According to this report, the Indonesian governme has also cleaned up radioactive coamination from 20 of the 22 facilities where traces of this substance were discovered..
Bara Hasibwan, a spokesman for Indonesia’s Radioactive Pollution Task Force, told Reuters today that the governme has begun evacuating resides from around the industrial area.
The coamination was first discovered in a shipme of shrimp se to the United States by an Indonesian company last August..
These efforts began after Indonesia had high levels of Cesium-137 radiation, an industrial radioactive isotope, has been discovered in a vast industrial area near Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.



