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Related: About this forumRadioactivity hike seen in northern Europe; source unknown
Haven't seen this anywhere else.
Nordic authorities say they detected slightly increased levels of radioactivity in northern Europe this month that Dutch officials said may be from a source in western Russia and may indicate damage to a fuel element in a nuclear power plant.
But Russian news agency TASS, citing a spokesman with the state nuclear power operator Rosenergoatom., reported that the two nuclear power plans in northwestern Russia havent reported any problems.
The Leningrad plant near St. Petersburg and the Kola plant near the northern city of Murmansk, operate normally, with radiation levels being within the norm, Tass said.
The Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish radiation and nuclear safety watchdogs said this week theyve spotted small amounts of radioactive isotopes harmless to humans and the environment in parts of Finland, southern Scandinavia and the Arctic.
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority said Tuesday that it is not possible now to confirm what could be the source of the increased levels of radioactivity or from where a cloud, or clouds, containing radioactive isotopes that has allegedly been blowing over the skies of northern Europe originated. Its Finnish and Norwegian counterparts also havent speculated about a potential source.
But the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands said Friday it analyzed the Nordic data and these calculations show that the radionuclides (radioactive isotopes) come from the direction of Western Russia.
The radionuclides are artificial, that is to say they are man-made. The composition of the nuclides may indicate damage to a fuel element in a nuclear power plant, the Dutch agency said, adding that a specific source location cannot be identified due to the limited number of measurements.
https://apnews.com/16ce7ced2b5b98974e0cc4437b14bf44
Miguelito Loveless
(4,451 posts)could easily track the source, but Putin has ordered the US to ignore it.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Guardian news Eourpe has run stories about how the Chernobyl Concrete Cover has Cracked and it is leaking Radiation. Sweden as well as Finland have soured this Radiation foot print back to Chernobyl.
Finishline42
(1,091 posts)I was hoping it was an incident at a current operating plant - something temporary.
Chernobyl just won't go away.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)radioactive Barrels leaking in the Black Sea. This is another massive nightmare happening in real time.
Finishline42
(1,091 posts)this is from 2014. They just dump them. Sorry the story is behind a paywall but this part isn't.
At a deserted gas station in a remote North Dakotan town, local officials recently found an unintended byproduct of the shale-oil boom: hundreds of garbage bags filled with mildly radioactive waste.
These bags, which were discovered late February in Noonan, N.D., contained what are known as "oil socks": three-foot-long, snake-like filters made of absorbent fiber. The shale-oil industry uses the socks to capture silt from waste water resulting from hydraulic fracturing.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/radioactive-waste-is-north-dakotas-new-shale-problem-1397582455
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)If the public knew how much of this crap gets thrown in landfills,they would scream to high heaven. Watched a Pumper unload his waste water into a Sanitary Sewer Manhole in Colorado.