Posted on 02/20/2017 11:11:19 AM PST by nycinfotech
Since January 2017, low levels of radioactive Iodine-131 contamination have been detected over various European countries. Highest levels have been detected in Poland. The radioactive particles were first detected in Finland.
Source is anyone's guess, but the initial area of detection and area of highest concentration point to Russia. I disagree with the blog's conclusion that this is likely to be a nuclear test since I-131 has a short half-life of 8 days.
More likely, there's an ongoing issue with a Russian nuclear reactor. (Doesn't have to be a power station - could be a sub or other naval reactor.)
Apparently there’s a nuclear graveyard in that region - old stuff not noted for quality storage facilities (ex.: nuclear boats just beached as-is).
It’s likely a Russian-built nuclear reactor from the Soviet era that is suffering problems (remember, Russian nuclear reactor installations don’t have thick containment structures like they do in the USA).
Sweden and Denmark have no detections but are surrounded by countries that have detections so...their detectors are probably not working.
This radioactive iodine stuff has an 8day half-life. Doesn’t sound like a fission reactor going blooey
CHERNOBYL ..................................
I’m pretty sure Iodine-131 is what the Russian nuke subs run on, and they have a whole bunch of those rotting in NW Russia. I’ll bet that is what is being detected.
“Rotting” is the right term. Saw pictures: the subs are literally just beached and abandoned.
It can’t be coming from an reactor that’s been inop for a long time. I-131 has a half life of 8 days and isn’t produced by anything other than an active fission reaction.
It sounds exactly like a fission reactor slowly leaking.
No, Russian subs run on U-235, same as ours. I-131 is just a byproduct of a U-235 fission reaction. It disappears from inactive reactors within weeks to months, so this is an operational (or recently operational) reactor.
Check the expiration date on your KI pills. Sounds like this is ongoing and not a one-off. And I’m sure their gubermints will let the public know in time to take them. /s
“Not the first time”
Zateyev’s options were limited, a choice of evils.
“At one point, I thought of going down to my cabin, drawing my pistol and finishing all my problems at once,” he said.
Instead, he organized three-man brigades of volunteers to work for five to 10 minutes each. Protected only by raincoats and gas masks, they were ordered to weld together a new cooling system.
, Ivan Kolokov stopped shaving. The skin on his face kept peeling off with the razor. Nikolai Zateyev, his shipmate, lay in bed 18 months while doctors replaced his bone marrow and blood.
Both sailors consider themselves lucky when they remember Boris Korchilov.
. “People died fully conscious, in terrible pain. They couldn’t speak, but they could whisper. They begged us to kill them.”
Korchilov and his colleagues were so radioactive that everything they came in contact with at the hospitals had to be destroyed.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-03/news/mn-8123_1_soviet-nuclear-submarine
True heroes.
Ok. Sounds good to me. My knowledge is minimal on the subject.
I am more concerned about the mess at Fukushima that is still leaking, than 8 day half life stuff. Obama should have “insisted “ that we take over and fix this mess. Maybe Trump will do something. The Japanese are obviously hoping it will just go away and a recent article I read said the radiation is at unimaginable levels there.
Thank you.
The hysteria regarding nuclear reactors is remarkable. Thanks for providing the facts.
That was a great movie too. If it is the same story I am thinking of...
There was an explosion and fire in a a reactor facility in France was at Flamanville on February 9.
and it came with the standard:
Authorities say there is ‘no nuclear risk’ from accident in reactor’s turbine hall.
KI pills have no expiration date.
Back in the early days of Russian nuclear weapons development, plutonium was cleaned from slurry tubes by workers in white paper coveralls ... using their hands ... shielding of any kind was non-existent in the plants.
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