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Nuclear weapons test sensors in Sweden detect unexplained rise in radiation coming from region including Russian city of St Petersburg
2020-06-28
More on this story from yesterday.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Radiation detected by Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization

  • Oversees hundreds of monitoring stations to detect nuclear weapons tests

  • The station in question, in Stockholm, detected three different isotopes

  • The isotopes detected were caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103

  • CTBTO chief Lassina Zerbo said the levels were not high enough to be harmful

  • They came from nuclear fission - the process used to generate nuclear power

  • But CTBTO said it was outside their mandate to determine exact origin
The Times of Israel adds:
Moscow reports operations normal, after Dutch officials suggest rise harmless to humans and environment may stem from damage to fuel element in western Russia nuclear power plant.
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  "Andri , why is Baltic like used Russian rubber ? , It is covered with Russian seamen. "
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163   2020-06-28 16:32  

#5  Andrei... you've lost another nuclear power plant?
Posted by: European Conservative   2020-06-28 13:28  

#4  Rise in radiation has been noted over an immense area from the northern Murmansk oblast to the Baltic. And beyond?
Posted by: b   2020-06-28 10:00  

#3  The half lives of caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103 are about 2y, 30y and 39d respectively. Iodine-131 (8d) seems to be missing.

Apparently the fission process that produced this was stopped some months but less than a year ago.

Could this be some residue from the nuclear powered cruise missile experiments?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-06-28 09:49  

#2  China: "We unleashed a bioweapon that has killed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide!"

Russia: "Hold my vodka."
Posted by: Matt   2020-06-28 09:01  

#1  Russians deny being source of radioactive leak in northern Europe claiming their two nuclear power plants in the region are working normally
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-06-28 08:59  

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