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Posted on 11/21/2017 9:19:17 PM PST by Enlightened1
Russia's meteorological service has reported “extremely high pollution” of a radioactive isotope in the Urals near a facility that previously suffered the third worst nuclear catastrophe in history.
The news bolsters international reports that a ruthenium-106 leak originating in the Urals sent a radioactive cloud over Europe. Greenpeace Russia has said it will ask the prosecutor general to investigate the possible cover-up of a nuclear accident.
Rosatom, Russia's state nuclear company, said in a statement to The Telegraph on Tuesday there had been "no unreported accidents" and the ruthenium-106 emission was "not linked to any Rosatom site". Its Mayak facility, where an explosion in 1957 contaminated a swath of central Russia, told state news agency RIA Novosti that it had not processed nuclear fuel with ruthenium-106 this year.
The isotope, which doesn't occur naturally, was detected in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland in late September. France's nuclear safety institute said the “major” radiation leak likely occurred between the Urals and the Volga river.
Rosatom said in October the “account of a supposed Russian origin of the pollution is baseless”.
But a report by the Rosgidromet service on Monday revealed that the concentration of ruthenium-106 in Argayash, a village near Mayak, exceeded natural background pollution by 986 times at the end of September. The head of the service said excessive ruthenium-106 levels had also been documented in Poland, Bulgaria and Ukraine.
Responding to accusations that local authorities had covered up the leak, Yevgeny Savchenko, the Chelyabinsk region public safety minister, said on Monday “fluctuations in background radiation” had not reached dangerous levels and thus “there was no basis for protective measures”.
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Ask Hillary.
Word is it’s old nuclear reactors in Russia that is creating this radiation cloud.
The fact that the Northern Hemisphere jet stream blows from West to East and they are picking it up in Europe. This is quite alarming.
Haha! Yep..
Russia’s claiming it’s a Ukrainian one. However, it wouldn’t be the first time Russia lied about something like this before.
Did an old reactor blow up? Melt down? Leak? Any other news?
I heard the old reactors just leak.
These nuclear plants are suppose to have a shelf life of 25 to 30 years. Now the average nuclear plant is 35 years.
The Southern Hemisphere is staring to look better with all this radiation getting dumped on us.
Ruthenium-106 has a half life a little longer than a year and usually occurs as a by product of fission in reactors. Likely a spent fuel reprocessing facility had some kind of leak. Especially since there are not other radioactive elements mixed in. That suggests Ruthenium had already been chemically seperated.
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You beat me! My first thought was Hillary was over there eating beans... or nuclear ore...
This article has an objective assessment of what happened.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russian-radiation-leak-everything-you-need-to-know
Chernobyl had a kid?
Nuclear power is innately toxic.
You might want to take a look at North Korea.
Probably US uranium shepherded out to Russia from Hillary with love.
Cheap energy isn’t ‘cheap’ if it costs billions to clean up... just ask the Japanese...
Thanks for the information... ‘leaks’ makes sense...
Cheap energy isn’t ‘cheap’ if it costs billions to clean up... just ask the Japanese...
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