Fire at Moscow nuclear institute

February 7, 2012 by legitgov

Fire at Moscow nuclear institute 05 Feb 2012 Fire broke out at a Moscow nuclear research centre housing a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor on Sunday, said officials. The fire broke out early on Sunday in a part of the Alikhanov Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics in southwestern Moscow that contains a research collider, institute officials said in a statement on its website. There were no radiation sources in the area of the collider [?!?], which had been shut off on December 25, and no danger of a radiation leak, the statement said. Interfax cited a police source as saying fire brigades were denied access to the facility for "a long time" before being allowed in, but the institute said that was not the case.