The liquid was in two huge containers that tipped over while being moved, contaminating a 15-square-meter area on the grounds of the Urals Electrochemical Plant, said Yury Vishnevsky, the head of the State Nuclear Inspection Agency.
Vishnevsky told Interfax that radioactivity in the area measured five times higher than the so-called background, or ordinary, level for the area.
No one was injured, he said, and the spill area was being decontaminated.
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