The money that the Moldovans working in Russia send home by parcels do not pose a radioactive danger, assured the vice director of the National Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activities Ionel Balan, when asked by Info-Prim Neo to pronounce following the detection of bills with an increased radiation level in Russia. According to Ionel Balan, there are situations when the bills are loaded radioactively in order to discover frauds, but their radiation level decreases tenfold in only eight hours. Thus, even if radioactive bills are transmitted from Russia, they do not pose a threat to health. Asked at what intervals the bills used in Moldova are checked for radiation, Ionel Balan said no such checks are performed as they are unnecessary. In order to become radioactive, the money must be treated with the help of special radioactive substances that protect both the banknotes and those involved in this process. Ionel Balan stated that radioactive lei have never been detected. At the end of the 1990s, the special services followed a group of offenders and intentionally loaded radioactively Russian rubles. It was the only case of the kind. “We must admit that many patients are treated with radioactive isotopes in nuclear medicine and the quantities of radioactive substances that are injected into them are much larger than those used for bills” said Ionel Balan, adding that the vegetables are also radioactive, but they are not dangerous because the radiation level in them is not very high.