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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.reuters.com ...


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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1 posted on 06/26/2020 8:40:31 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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2 posted on 06/26/2020 8:42:30 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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Russia missing another Nuke sub?


3 posted on 06/26/2020 8:43:42 PM PDT by TaMoDee (The Pack will be back in 2020! Go Pack Go!!)
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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.


4 posted on 06/26/2020 8:46:22 PM PDT by djf (Better to be anecdotally alive than clinically dead!)
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5 posted on 06/26/2020 8:47:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TaMoDee

You’ve lost another submarine?


6 posted on 06/26/2020 8:48:01 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: dfwgator

You beat me to it.


7 posted on 06/26/2020 8:48:18 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: KC_Lion

bttt


8 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.)
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To: rdl6989

Not since the “Hunt for Red October”!


9 posted on 06/26/2020 8:53:07 PM PDT by TaMoDee (The Pack will be back in 2020! Go Pack Go!!)
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To: ameribbean expat

TX. Knew a guy on sob who’s dossimiter went nuts Cruz he hung his pants on a nuclear warhead.


10 posted on 06/26/2020 8:53:14 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ameribbean expat

A lot of ground covered there, wonder if there is additional information, anywhere?


11 posted on 06/26/2020 8:56:10 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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“but still harmless levels of isotopes”

And that is where I say... Propaganda.


12 posted on 06/26/2020 9:05:59 PM PDT by Revel
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No safeties!


13 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 ......)
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To: ameribbean expat

Russia has an old typhoon-class sub in the Baltic.


14 posted on 06/26/2020 9:53:24 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Good memory you have. I think you are right.


15 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.)
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To: rdl6989

I heard it was in a moat around a dacha right outside of St. Pete’s.


16 posted on 06/26/2020 10:41:27 PM PDT by ALASKA (Watching an attempted coup by a thousand cuts)
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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,

17 posted on 06/26/2020 11:20:33 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ameribbean expat

A boo boo in Iran.


18 posted on 06/26/2020 11:36:14 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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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!
19 posted on 06/26/2020 11:38:20 PM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: ameribbean expat

All “nuclear powers”, right?


20 posted on 06/27/2020 12:55:17 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (??)
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