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The United States government has donated CBRN protective equipment to the southeast African country of Mozambique. The chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Maputo, Abigail Dressel, delivered the equipment on Thursday 2 April to the permanent secretary of the Mozambican Interior Ministry, Victor Canhemba Júnior. Speaking at the
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Fifteen workers at a fish processing factory in the Milas district of Muğla, Turkey, were hospitalised on Thursday evening 2 April with suspected ammonia gas poisoning. According to the outlet Haberler, the incident occurred at around 19:30 at the Sürsan Fishing facility in the neighbourhood of Güllük. After a
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Cambodian government officials as well as legal and technical experts from the country met in Phnom Penh on 26-27 March for a workshop focused on efforts to establish a national registry of controlled biological agents. The workshop was organised by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) in
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A school in Jelenia Góra, southwestern Poland, has detected levels of the radioactive gas radon being at more than seven times the safe limit. As reported by TVP World, the tests were conducted from late January to early March and found radon levels in two classrooms and the gym at
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The Bulgarian State Enterprise for Radioactive Waste (SERAW) reported on Friday 27 March that the country's national repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste has been issued with a certificate confirming it is ready for commissioning. SERAW executive director, Dilyan Petrov, said: "We are pleased that
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Trace amounts of fentanyl were discovered inside the packaging of five Barbie dolls sold at a discount store in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, on Saturday 21 March. In a statement released on Facebook, police said that store security at Cargo Largo contacted authorities "regarding a suspicious
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A new coating technology developed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute has reduced the decontamination time of radioactive nuclides adsorbed on the surfaces of buildings and equipment. The new technology can remove up to 95 percent of radioactive elements in three hours, while existing commercial products require approximately 24
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The Kenya Nuclear Regulatory Authority (KNRA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) of Uganda to strengthen regional nuclear safety and security. Announced on LinkedIn on Tuesday 24 March, KNRA said that the memorandum is "a strategic initiative to boost the regional capacity for
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A leak of di-methyl sulphate at a pharmaceutical facility in Boisar, Maharashtra, India, led to 22 workers being hospitalised on Sunday, 22 March. According to Devdiscourse, the incident in Tarapur MIDC occurred during a transfer process. Although a minor overflow from the tanker's vent line was immediately
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A group of western and Middle Eastern nations have announced a Syrian-led task force to identify and destroy the remnants of the country's chemical weapons programme inherited from the ousted regime of Bashar Al Assad. During a special ceremony at the United Nations in New York on
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Approximately 200 litres of the highly toxic herbicide Paraquat were spilled on a highway in Dorris, California, on Tuesday morning 17 March. The spill led to the Siskiyou County sheriff's office issuing a shelter-in-place order while emergency responders and cleanup crews worked the incident scene. The
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Representatives of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency have visited officials belonging to Kenya's National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to introduce their chemical security programme and explore areas of collaboration with NEMA and other partner agencies. According to information published by NEMA, the meeting on 17 March highlighted