In Mongolia, a Russian nuclear physicist was detained on a "pile of uranium waste"

Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Ozharovsky was detained in Mongolia by employees of the local migration service and the police. He announced this in his telegram channel.

According to Ozharovsky, he was "arrested" for measuring radioactivity on a mountain of old radioactive waste.…

"So. The Migration Service of Mongolia, with the support of the police and two plainclothes types, found me on a pile of radioactive waste (how did they find me? were you watching the phone?). They took away my passport, which, I believe, deprived me of my freedom, at least freedom of movement. I asked to explain the reason for the detention. They couldn't (didn't want to) do it… The Mongolian authorities are guarding the old Soviet radioactive waste — that's exactly what it looks like, it's sad. But there has been no rudeness or violence (yet)..." he writes in your telegram channel.

According to his TC, the scientist arrived in Mongolia at the invitation of local environmental activists who are fighting uranium mining. The incident occurred during a survey of abandoned uranium quarries in the area of the Mardai deposit.