Suspected of having a radioactive substance concealed at home Arrested company employee Nagoya 5 November 18:38

A 34-year-old office worker in Nagoya City was arrested for concealing the radioactive material "Americium 241" at home. The police are investigating the route of acquisition, etc., as a result of a search by a former university student who was sentenced to imprisonment for producing explosives in Nagoya City.

Mr. Takanori Ichikawa (34), a company employee in Moriyama-ku, Nagoya, was arrested.

According to the police, in April, in a house apartment, 8 containers containing the radioactive material “Americium 241” were concealed without the permission of the government, and “potassium chlorate” used as the raw material for explosives. There is a suspicion of violating the Radiation Hazard Prevention Law, assuming that 157 grams were stored.

In Nagoya City, the police searched for Ichikawa's home as a related party in March when he was sentenced to prison sentence in March when a former university student produced high-killing explosives such as acetone peroxide. It means that it was found.

In response to the investigation, while acknowledging the suspicion of americium 241, it is stated that “there was no recognition that potassium chloride was electrolyzed but potassium chlorate was formed”.

Americium 241 is an artificial radioactive substance that is sometimes used in “smoke detectors”, and the police are investigating the route to obtain it when it is taken into the body.