Radiation levels checked in Odessa region: is there any danger?

Radiation levels checked in Odessa region: is there any danger? Shutterstock

Illya Fedun

The radiation level fluctuates within permissible limits

Specialists have checked radiation levels in the Odessa region. Radiation levels are within normal limits and pose no danger.

This was reported by the press service of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Black Sea Fleet.

Experts reported that the radiation level in the region ranges from 9 to 17 μR/hour. The control level of radiation background is up to 25 μR. The following results of the check in the cities of the Odessa region were published:

Balta………..………….13 μR/hour;

Lyubashivka…..…..……11 μR/hour;

Zatyshshya………….…..9 μR/hour;

Serbka………….….…..8 μR/hour;

Rozdilna…….…..…..13 μR/hour;

Yuzhne……………….….17 μR/hour;

Odesa……………………10 μR/hour;

Chornomorsk…..……9 μR/hour;

Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.……9 μR/hour;

Saratov…………….……9 μR/hour;

Bolgrad…………..…….8 μR/hour;

Vylkove…………..……10 μR/hour.

As EcoPolitic wrote earlier, Ukraine will receive €22.6 million from the EU for projects related to nuclear safety.

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