PRACHIN BURI: The Office of Atoms for Peace (OAP) said on Monday that furnace dust contaminated with hazardous caesium-137 found at a metal foundry in Kabin Buri district had now been safely contained.
Kitkawin Aramrun, OAP senior radiation physicist, confirmed at a press conference at the Prachin Buri government complex that he found caesium-137-contaminated furnace dust at a local metalworks. There was no other contamination detected within a five-kilometre radius outside the factory.
