April 152013 officers of the customs post seaport of Vladivostok and Vladivostok Pershamaiski customs office for radiation customs control of goods that arrived in Russia from Japan by ships «YERUSLAN», «SILVER HOPE» and «MAKASSAR HIGHWAY», were found used parts /y to the car «Hino Rrofia» (frame assembly from the front and rear axles with installed suction units), used parts /in the car «Isuzu Forvard» (frame with elements of the chassis, body and arm), used asphalt /u «Mitsubishi Asphalt Finisher «and used car /u» Honda Air Wave «» with increased relative to the natural radiation background levels of ionizing radiation.
equivalent dose of gamma radiation on the surface of goods amounted to 325 mSv /h, 020 mSv /h, 043 mSv /h and 048 mSv /h at natural background radiation 006 mSv /h In addition, the goods found to be contaminated with beta-active radionuclides.
information identifying radiation hazardous sites was promptly brought to the sanitary and quarantine post «Sea Port of Vladivostok» Rospotrebnadzor Primorsky Krai.
This is not the first to identify the Far Eastern customs radiation hazard from Japan. From the beginning to the present time (at 1704 .2013) by customs officials of the Far Eastern Federal District identified 74 radiation hazardous objects coming from Japan (second-hand cars, car parts and auto parts), 58 of them by Rospotrebnadzor banned from being imported into the territory of the Customs Union. According to other objects decision by Rospotrebnadzor pending.