EMERCOM plane delivers laboratory to FE to monitor radiation

KHABAROVSK, March 19 (Itar-Tass) -- A Russian Emergencies Ministry
(EMERCOM) Il-76 plane delivered a special laboratory from Moscow to
Khabarovsk on Saturday for detailed analyses of the radiation, chemical and biological situation.
The new equipment is to be installed on Sakhalin, a source at the
EMERCOM Far Eastern regional centre said.
According to the monitoring data, by 14:00 local time (07:00 Moscow time) on Saturday, the background radiation in the territories of the Federation in the Far East Federal District was 10-16 microroentgen an hour, with the safe level of 25-30 microroentgen.
Residents in the Khabarovsk Territory from Saturday receive real-time information about the radiation level. At the site of the Emergencies Ministry's regional department, "on-line broadcasting" is opened to show the readings of the detector radiometer DGK-07BS. The data are also simultaneously broadcast on screens installed on buildings in Khabarovsk.
The radiation background in the regional centre is 12 microroentgens an hour.
As the Far Eastern regional department for hydrometeorology and
environmental monitoring told Itar-Tass, "in the next three to five days, the direction of winds at high altitudes to 5 km will not change, the air flows will remove the dangerous emissions of radioactive substances to the east, the zone of the Pacific Ocean."
In the seas of the Far East, radiation monitoring is enlarged with the use of Russian coast guard ships and research and other vessels.