Navratil was in the expert team that had assessed the radar's health risks at the Kwajalein Atoll, from which it is to be moved to the military district Brdy in Central Bohemia. Navratil stressed that the new study analysed the parameters of the radar XBR, while the earlier report for the government assessed the data of the EBR radar that was to be moved to the Czech Republic and it did not confirm any health risks. "They mistake the data relating to the radar to be located in the Brdy with those of other radars," Navratil said about the report compiled by physicist Petr Pokorny from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, radio waves specialist Experts warn of ray from U.S.
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Czech Prime Minister meets Berlusconi during Italian holiday ... Milan Hlobil and military analyst Stanislav Kaucky. Its results were published on Saturday. The ray from the planned U.S. radar base in the Czech Republic can be reflected off a plane or inversion strata and threaten people, the study said. The experts said the planned no-fly zone would not provide sufficient protection and should be widened to 50 kilometres, as far as afield as the international Prague-Ruzyne airport. There is the threat that the emitted ray hits a plane including its passengers, they said. "The official no-fly zone has been delineated wrongly and it is dangerous in the conditions of the Czech Republic," the study said. Navratil said that based on measurements at Kwajalein the proposed no-fly zone was in order and there was no danger to the human health. "Just like the health of none of the inhabitants of and personnel at Kwajalein was harmed," Navratil said. The server www.protiraketam.cz, recommended by the Foreign Ministry, said the stationing of the radar required a no-fly zone within 4.5-13.5 kilometres depending on the type of the aircraft. "Health risks are ruled out," Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said after its report was published in March. The Defence Ministry said it disagreed with the conclusions of the latest study. "The no-fly zone is safe as it was delineated," spokesman Andrej Cirtek told CTK. The United States wants to build the radar base on the Brdy military grounds, 90 km southwest of Prague, and a base with ten interceptor missiles in Poland within its missile shield. The Central European elements are to protect the United States and a large part of the European continent against missiles that states like Iran might launch.
(Ceske Noviny)
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