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17:36 18/08/06

GOVERNMENT DECREASES RADIATION NORM

The government approved today new norms for population and nuclear
power plant staff reducing it from 0.5 to 0.2 ber (measurement unit
for radiation) for population and from 5 to 2 ber for the staff of the
nuclear power plant. The decision will be effective starting July 1,
next year.

Ashot Martirosyan, nature protection ministry state nuclear supervision
department head, told reporters today that at the moment "the annual
indicator of the radiation for nuclear power plant staff does not
exceed 2 ber". Martirosyan, however, failed to say what is the level of
public radiation, saying no measurements have been taken. /Panorama.am/