Iraq’s Minister of higher training and medical research, Dr. Naeem Al-Aboudi, who also heads the Iraqi Atomic power commission (IAEC), has announced that three sites in the Tuwaitha complicated southeast of Baghdad are now showed to be free of radioactive contamination.
speaking at a press conference, Dr. Al-Aboudi stated the cleared websites consist of the former French LAMA Laboratories, the Italian radioisotope manufacturing facility, and the Tamuz-2 research reactor. He affirmed that every one sites underwent thorough radiation surveys performed the usage of precise clinical methodologies and in coordination with country wide establishments. The results confirmed that no radioactive residues remain that would pose a danger to public health.
In a associated improvement, the Minister introduced that Iraq is near signing an agreement with the China countrywide Nuclear employer to set up the country’s first subcritical education reactor. This educational assignment will support the development of student and researcher abilities in nuclear physics and peaceful radiation technology.
