Russian authorities on November 21 confirmed reports of a spike in radioactivity in the air over the Ural Mountains while the suspected culprit, a nuclear fuel processing plant, denied it was the source of contamination.
The Russian Meteorological Service said in a statement November 21 that it recorded the release of Ruthenium-106 in the southern Urals in late September and classified it as “extremely high contamination.” Russian authorities insisted, however, that the amount of Ruthenium posed no health risks.
