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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says
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Posted on 06/26/2020 8:40:31 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) oversees a network of hundreds of monitoring stations that use seismic, hydroacoustic and other technology to check for a nuclear weapon test anywhere in the world. That technology can, however, be put to other uses as well.
One of its stations scanning the air for radionuclides - telltale radioactive particles that can be carried long distances by the wind - detected unusually high levels of three radionuclides earlier this week: caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103.
The Stockholm monitoring station "detected 3isotopes; Cs-134, Cs-137 & Ru-103 associated w/Nuclear fission @ higher[ ] than usual levels (but not harmful for human health)", CTBTO chief Lassina Zerbo said on Twitter (here on Friday evening.
The particles were detected on "22/23 June", he added.
Zerbo's post included a borderless map showing where the particles might have come from in the 72 hours before they were detected - a large area (here) covering the tips of Denmark and Norway as well as southern Sweden, much of Finland, Baltic countries and part of western Russia including St Petersburg.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202006; 20200622; baltic; ctbto; denmark; finland; isotopes; lassinazerbo; norway; nuclear; putinsbuttboys; radioactive; russia; sweden
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To: ameribbean expat; BenLurkin; Army Air Corps
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:42:30 PM PDT
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KC_Lion
To: ameribbean expat
Russia missing another Nuke sub?
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:43:42 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(The Pack will be back in 2020! Go Pack Go!!)
To: ameribbean expat
Uh oh.
I remember reading a newspaper article about Sweden detecting some particles and I was thinking at the time well, that ain’t so good...
It was in April 1986 about two days before Chernobyl was revealed.
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:46:22 PM PDT
by
djf
(Better to be anecdotally alive than clinically dead!)
To: TaMoDee
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:47:49 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: TaMoDee
You’ve lost another submarine?
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:48:01 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:48:18 PM PDT
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rdl6989
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:51:02 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: rdl6989
Not since the “Hunt for Red October”!
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:53:07 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(The Pack will be back in 2020! Go Pack Go!!)
To: ameribbean expat
TX. Knew a guy on sob who’s dossimiter went nuts Cruz he hung his pants on a nuclear warhead.
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:53:14 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: ameribbean expat
A lot of ground covered there, wonder if there is additional information, anywhere?
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posted on
06/26/2020 8:56:10 PM PDT
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: ameribbean expat
“but still harmless levels of isotopes”
And that is where I say... Propaganda.
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:05:59 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/26/2020 9:16:37 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ameribbean expat
Russia has an old typhoon-class sub in the Baltic.
To: djf
Good memory you have. I think you are right.
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posted on
06/26/2020 10:17:29 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: rdl6989
I heard it was in a moat around a dacha right outside of St. Pete’s.
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06/26/2020 10:41:27 PM PDT
by
ALASKA
(Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts)
To: ameribbean expat
Another canister of radioactive waste dumped by the Soviets into the Baltic Sea half a century ago has finally succumbed to the corrosion and burst open.
Nothing to see here, folks!
Regards,
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posted on
06/26/2020 11:20:33 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: ameribbean expat
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posted on
06/26/2020 11:36:14 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
To: ameribbean expat
They detected the leak on 22/23 June but we're only hearing about this now?
It was already 72 hours old.
Wonder what's happened/happening since and which way the wind has been blowing!
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06/26/2020 11:38:20 PM PDT
by
Mr Radical
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: ameribbean expat
All “nuclear powers”, right?
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