Radioactive Materials Revealed in Sydney Apartment Building

On 17 August, members of the Australian Frontier Force and specialized teams from the Fire and Rescue Service of the New South Wales (FRNSW) found low-level radioactive isotopes commonly used in industry in an apartment building on Kelsey Street, Arncliffe, located in southern Sydney.

FRNSW specialists established a 10-meter exclusion zone around the apartment building, and three residents were taken to the hospital for examination. As a preventive measure, other residents of the apartment building and neighboring houses on Kelsey Street were evacuated.

According to the New South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, the radioactive material was revealed in appropriate containers, so there was no radiation release and specialists were able to carry out further sealing without complications.

Firefighters in protective clothing used special detectors to survey the territory and declared the site of the incident safe. Dosimetry monitoring of hospitalized residents showed that the radiation level does not exceed the established permissible values. After all the examination, the residents of the apartment building and neighboring houses were allowed to come back to their homes.

According to the FRNSW