A security perimeter was set up due to radioactivity readings in a company in Colmar, indicated the Haut-Rhin prefecture. The system was introduced after the metallurgy company ADF reported on Wednesday around 6:40 p.m.
difficulties in shutting down a gamma graph. People were evacuated and accommodated in premises made available by a neighboring college and others, who could not return to their homes, were relocated. The district must remain inaccessible on Thursday within a security perimeter with a radius of 130 meters, indicates the prefecture and a specialized company must intervene to shut down the gamma graph, it adds. The prefecture says “no risk of contamination or dispersion is to be feared ”. The company site was evacuated as a precautionary measure and the security perimeter set up as a result of the incident. It was not immediately clear how many people had been evacuated and how long it would take for the situation to be resolved.