OREANDA-NEWS. On May 21 evening the head of the Administration of Sosnovy Bor Municipal District Dmitry Pulyayevsky and the chief engineer of Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant Oleg Chernikov commented on TV on the rumors about a radiation accident at Leningrad NPP.

To remind, allegations about release of radiation at Leningrad NPP appeared on internet and in mass media on May 20. Despite the official denial by Rosenergoatom Concern and the administration of Sosnovy Bor the information attack continued.

Pulyayevsky qualified the incident as an information terror, a campaign for spreading misinformation among the population of North-Western Russia.

“Lots of people in St.Petersburg were worried but the residents of Sosnovy Bor showed adequate reaction as most of them work at Leningrad NPP. They see, know and realize that the plant is working normally and nothing wrong has happened there.”

Chernikov said that all the units of Leningrad NPP were operating safely and efficiently and no radiation accident had taken place at the plant.

The data of the automated radiation control system of Leningrad NPP confirm this: on May 21 at 07:00 PM the radiation background at Leningrad NPP and in Sosnovy Bor was 0.13 mSvh, which was no more than natural background.

Other federal agencies have also refuted the rumors: the Emergency Ministry, Rostekhnadzor (the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision), the Prosecutor’s Office of Leningrad NPP, Rospotrebnadzor (the Federal Service for Control of Protection of Rights of Consumers).

“Our first response to this attack was a joint press-release refuting the rumors. Presently, we are carrying out investigation to find and punish the author of the allegations,” Pulyayevsky said.

Pulyayevsky has instructed the local law enforcers to find the authors of the rumors and to take measures to prevent their activities.