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The 314th warning centre of weapons of mass destruction was built in the late 1960s as the first facility with which the former Czechoslovakia wanted to face an “imperialist” nuclear attack. LN writes.

At present, its staff conduct a round-o-clock monitoring of the radiation and chemical situation in the whole of the Czech Republic, it adds.

“When the nuclear facility in the Japanese Fukushima blasted in 2011, we checked the orchestra that returned from Japan,” a military commander is quoted as saying.

Last week, the team had a different task. It prepared an Mi-17 transport military helicopter for a mission to the Sumava Mountains, south Bohemia, LN writes.

Along with experts from the Czech State Office for Nuclear Safety (SUJB), it must regularly check the places with increased radiation in which a radioactive cloud rained after the Chernobyl disaster, it adds.

While radioactivity has disappeared from the places with agricultural use, it is still preserved in some places with no human activity, LN writes.

In some Sumava areas, there are problems with wild boars whose bodies contain excessive quantities of the Chernobyl caesium, it adds….. http://praguemonitor.com/2013/04/30/ln-czechs-still-checking-chernobyl-radiation