Plant now ‘secured’, locals urged to relax
Caretaker Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha gave reassurances that local residents would be safe after hazardous caesium-137 contamination was detected at a metal factory in Prachin Buri’s Kabin Buri district on Monday.
According to the Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP), contaminated furnace dust was found at a local steel plant. However there was no trace of contamination found within a 5-kilometre radius of the factory.
Many bags of furnace dust were found to be unaffected and were moved off the premises. The plant’s 70 employees were also cleared and the site has been put under the control of…
