Amid social media reports about a possible accident at Russia’s Rostov nuclear power plant, the Radiation Protection Centre said on Friday that there is no direct radiological threat to Lithuanian territory.
The centre said in a press release that radiation levels in Lithuania are being continuously monitored by specialists and remain unchanged.
The centre said it would immediately inform the responsible authorities and the population of any danger related to radioactive material spreading in Lithuania.
“We also point out that there is no need for people to take potassium iodide tablets,” it added.
The State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate told BNS on Friday afternoon that it had not received any information from official sources about a possible incident at the Rostov nuclear power plant, which is more than 1,300 kilometres away from Lithuania.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that the Russian Energy Ministry and Rosatom, the state nuclear energy company, had said that one of four power units at the Rostov nuclear power plant in southern Russia had been shut down due to a malfunction.
Rosatom said the power unit had been automatically shut down due to a malfunction of the turbine generator and that the reasons were being investigated, according to the news agency.
Reports emerged on the Telegram social network on Friday that a radiation accident had occurred at the Rostov nuclear power plant.
On its official Telegram account, the plant dismissed the information about the accident as incorrect, saying that its units were operating normally, and radiation levels remained unchanged.
The European Commission’s publicly available radioactivity environmental monitoring map also shows normal radiation levels in Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian city about 250 kilometres from Rostov.
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