Flats donating radiation monitor to Russian facility

GOLDEN — Worker radiation monitoring equipment from Rocky Flats that was scheduled for demolition is being donated by the United States to Russia’s First Institute of Biophysics facility, located in the Chelyabinsk region in the Ural Mountains.

The excess lung-counting equipment, including a steel counting vault with graded liners to shield background radiation and current germanium detectors, is located in Building 123 at Rocky Flats.

Building 123 houses one of four lung counters at Rocky Flats and is destined for demolition as part of the Department of Energy’s efforts to accelerate…