Last year the IAEA director warned that its main analytical lab built in 1970 was outmoded and no longer met UN safety standards, and he called for 27.2mn euros ($42.4 milion) in extra funding from member states to modernise it.
The IAEA said “pressure build-up in a small sealed sample bottle in a storage safe” released a small amount of plutonium at 2.30am (0030 GMT) on Sunday when no one was in the area”.
The leak spread to two neighbouring storage rooms. “All indications are that there was no release of radioactivity to the environment. Further monitoring around the laboratory will be undertaken,” an IAEA statement said.
The area was sealed pending decontamination.
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