Location: Riga
Website: http://www.sfp-ofm.lanet.lv/bsi.html
Status: Baltic Scientific Instruments (BSI) was created in 1994 from the former Riga Research Institute for Radioisotope Apparatus (RRIRA), a unit of the Soviet Ministry for Atomic Energy, which specialized in the production of semiconductor detectors and equipment for ionising radiation registration and spectrometry. BSI develops and produces various types of nuclear equipment for nuclear power plants, reprocessing plants, and research organisations.
3 October 1994
0.5 kg of plutonium was in storage at the Riga Research Institute for Radioisotope Apparatus, but was then scheduled to be shipped immediately to the Radon State Enterprise in Baldone, Latvia. The electricity at the Radioisotope Apparatus Plant had been shut off, rendering the plant's alarm system useless.
[DIENA (Riga), 10/3/94, p. 4; in "Future For Salaspils Nuclear Reactor Viewed," FBIS-SOV-94-201, 10/3/94.]
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