Radioactive woman sparks alert
24/07/2008 14:04  - (SA)  

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Moscow - Authorities evacuated the airport terminal in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east, after a flight arriving from Seoul set off a radiation alarm.

The alarm was called off when security officials pinpointed the source - a woman who had just received radiation therapy, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.

The woman was released when it was established that South Korean doctors had treated her with iodine-131, a radioactive isotope used in nuclear medicine, giving her a level of radioactivity 15 times greater than the norm.

"Iodine 131 is a short-lived isotope, so the passenger should be back to normal in a month," Interfax quoted a customs spokesperson at Vladivostok airport as saying.

- AFP

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