site.btaNational Centre for Radiobiology and Radiation Protection: Background Radiation Monitored Round-the-Clock, No Cause for Alarm

Speaking to BTA on Thursday, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Radiobiology and Radiation Protection (NCRRP) with the Ministry of Health, Kremena Ivanova, said that there is no cause for alarm in Bulgaria following reports about panic-buying in Romania of potassium iodide pills after on Wednesday a Russian diplomat said that Bulgaria and Romania could be among the affected countries in the event of a serious accident at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Ivanova said there is no cause for panic at the moment and that ambient air samples were measured on Wednesday and Tuesday, and were found to be below the minimum measurable radioactivity.