Posted on 06/28/2020 6:48:21 AM PDT by texas booster
Invisible for humans, but detectable for radiation-filters. A cloud with tiny levels of radioactivity, believed to originate from western Russia, has been detected over Scandinavia and European Arctic.
First, in week 23 (June 2-8), iodine-131 was measured at the two air filter stations Svanhovd and Viksjøfjell near Kirkenes in short distance from Norway’s border to Russia’s Kola Peninsula. The same days, on June 7 and 8, the CTBTO-station at Svalbard measured tiny levels of the same isotope.
CTBTO is the global network of radiological and seismic monitoring under the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization.
Norway’s nuclear watchdog, the DSA, underlines that the levels are very small.
“We are currently keeping an extra good eye on our air-monitoring system,” says Bredo Møller with DSA’s Emergency Preparedness unit at Svanhovd.
While iodine-131 is only measured in the north, in the Kirkenes area and at Svalbard, Swedish and Finnish radiation authorities inform about other isotopes blowing in the skies over southern Scandinavia.
Bredo Møller says to the Barents Observer that his agency can’t conclude there is a connection between what is measured up north and what his Scandinavian colleagues measured in week 24.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebarentsobserver.com ...
Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) detected on June 16 and 17 small amounts of the radioactive isotopes cobalt, ruthenium and cesium (Co-60, Ru-103, Cs-134 and Cs-137).
STUK says the measurements were made in Helsinki where analysis is available on the same day. “At other stations, samples are collected during the week, so results from last week will be ready later.” Likely from a reactor
All these isotopes indicate that the release comes from a nuclear-reactor. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, and given the small amount measured in the north, this isotope could be gone before the radioactive cloud reached the southern parts of Finland and Sweden a week after the first measurements in the north. That be, if the release was somewhere in the Arctic or northwestern Russia and winds were blowing south or southwest.
Neither of the Scandinavian radiation agencies will speculate about the origin.
At least it is a microscopic amount.
Still amazed that we can detect such minuscule amount of a single isotope, hundreds of miles from the source.
I wonder if the Russians are testing that nuclear cruise missile again? They had a pad explosion back in March-April I think.
... that’s a nuclear-POWERED cruise missile.
... that’s a nuclear-POWERED cruise missile.
Any chance this is related to the mystery explosion in Iran?
Isn’t that how the Chernobyl disaster first came to public notice, sky-high radioactivity readings over Western Europe? The uproar and alarm was so great that the USSR finally had to admit to a minor accident . . . Of course it was anything but minor. This event sounds genuinely minor, thank heaven.
What mystery explosion in Iran?
Therefore, you should supplement with iodine/iodide, to saturate your thyroid which blocks radioactive iodine from absorbing.
An explosion that rattled Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photos showed.
What exploded in the incident early Friday that sent a massive fireball into the sky near Tehran remains unclear, as does the cause of the blast.
The unusual response of the Iranian government in the aftermath of the explosion, however, underscores the sensitive nature of an area near where international inspectors believe the Islamic Republic conducted high-explosive tests two decades ago for nuclear weapon triggers.
The blast shook homes, rattled windows and lit up the horizon early Friday in the Alborz Mountains. State TV later aired a segment from what it described as the site of the blast.
Any chance this is related to the mystery explosion in Iran?
Thanks for asking this question.
Looks like the mediots are ignoring Iran and trying to Russia/Russia us again.
How many roads must a man walk down?
Twitter reports: “Explosion in Iran’s eastern mountains was caused by a cyber attack that turned the facility on itself, destroying Iran’s Shahab long-range missile force stored in the Khajir tunnel base complex as well as the solid fuel production facility.”
https://twitter.com/colrichardkemp/status/1277164208224944129?s=21
I was hoping that cyber commands sent their centrifuges off, but the missile storage is even better.
How many seas must a white dove sail . . .
Ever heard of "Project Pluto"? It was intened to be a supersonic atomic-powered cruise missile with multiple warheads (a bomber, really) that could fly for weeks.
Apparently, it has an open cycle engine with radioactive exhaust. Wikipedia: "It was proposed that after delivering all its warheads, the missile could then spend weeks flying over populated areas at low altitudes, causing secondary damage from radiation."
Could be radiation from that (nuclear weapons) and conventional (?) bomb fabrication/storage/enrichment/bomb-missile depot that exploded near Tehran a few days ago.
No, you can’t have a nuclear powered cruise missile. That would be silly. You would not make a cruise missile with electricity generating potential energy. You make them with some sort of rocket or jet fuel.
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