Pakistan ads part of radiation campaign
Pakistan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) said that newspaper adverts urging members of the public to inform officials if they found any "lost or stolen" radioactive material are part of a public awareness campaign. The authority said that no radioactive material had been lost or stolen in Pakistan. A PNRA spokesman, Zaheer Ayub Baig, told World Nuclear News, "We have a record of all the radioactive sources imported into the country, those that are being used and also those that have been disposed of." However, he added that there was a "very remote chance where a source imported into the country some forty or fifty years ago or before the creation of Pakistan, that could not be taken on our charge." He said the radioactive sources could have been imported in scrap or old machinery. Baig added that there was a need to make the public familiar with the radiation warning sign and for making it aware of such sources of radiation. He said that a similar public awareness campaign regarding X-rays would soon be launched.
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