A no-access zone was set up on Thursday around a metallurgy company in Colmar after radioactivity readings. The alert ends, but the factory remains “under surveillance” “The security perimeter was lifted at 1:15 a.m.
last night,” added the mayor of Colmar, Éric Straumann, on Facebook. “At the end of the street, the radiation is equivalent to that emitted by the Breton forest,’ said the chief of staff of the prefecture, quoted by Les Dernieres Nouvelles d'Alsace. ‘No risk of contamination or dispersion is to be feared,' said the local press, citing an initial security perimeter of 200 m, which had to be reduced to 130 m. The worker on the front line at the time of the incident suffered the radiation equivalent of half a chest X-ray, according to L'AlSace. The prefecture also clarified that a nearby school, Berlioz College, was outside the security perimeter.