The International Atomic Energy Agency access to a slight leakage of plutonium material in the early morning hours yesterday, Sunday, continued its laboratory at Seibersdorf near the Austrian capital Vienna without resulting conta

mination or injuries.


A statement by the Agency to increase the pressure in one of the samples led to the leakage of the plutonium storage room, adding that the leak was an alarm system to operate through the ventilation system of control site.


The statement confirmed that it had been monitoring radioactive contamination in the room where the sample in another room, explaining that it was not one time in the laboratory and that "all indications are that there has been no radiation leakage into the surrounding environment."


For his part, spokesman of the Austrian Ministry of the Environment Daniel Cap that the radioactive material did not become one did not cause any harm to the environment, pointing out that the accident was not presented because the population at risk "of radiation remained confined in the security zone in the centre of the IAEA."


The spokesman added that the ministry would investigate the incident immediately, and the agency announced it would conduct an investigation and take samples in the vicinity of the contaminated area, which was resealed.


The Seibersdorf laboratory - which was built in 1970 - to examine and analyse samples taken during surveillance missions carried out by the Agency across the world.