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Radioactive Cloud over Europe in 2017?
The RSOE/EDIS monitoring site posted some disturbing information Monday.
The source of a gigantic, mysterious leak of radioactive material that swept across Europe in 2017 has been traced to a Russian nuclear facility, which appears to have been preparing materials for experiments in Italy.
The leak released up to 100 times the amount of radiation into the atmosphere that the Fukushima disaster did. Italian scientists were the first to raise the alarm on 2 October, when they noticed a burst of the radioactive ruthenium-106 in the atmosphere.
This was quickly corroborated by other monitoring laboratories across Europe. Georg Steinhauser at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany says he was “stunned” when he first noticed the event. Routine surveillance detects several radiation leaks each year, mostly of extremely low levels of radionuclides used in medicine. But this event was different.
“The ruthenium-106 was one of a kind. We had never measured anything like this before,” says Steinhauser. Even so, the radiation level wasn’t high enough to impact human health in Europe, although exposure closer to the site of release would have been far greater.
The Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Security in Paris soon concluded that the most probable source of the leak was between the Volga River and Ural mountains in Russia. This is where Russia’s Mayak facility is located. The site, which includes a plant that processes spent nuclear fuel, suffered the world’s third most serious nuclear accident in 1957.
You can read the rest of the article at the New Scientist.
This begs the question, what was being transferred to Italy and for what purposes? Is the exchange of these materials allowed and done on a regular basis within the West? The conclusion of the investigations as to what caused the radiation cloud over Europe in 2017 leaves more questions unanswered. If it was a legitimate order, and an accident happened, why cover it up?
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Because the bureaucrats within totalitarian regimes do that instinctively.
Yes, of course. But what if this time there was an ACTUAL reason for a coverup?
There is always reason for a cover up. Something went wrong. But if you mean, “a major conspiracy,” I doubt it. We know what they were doing for whom. If the Italian facility were not on the up-and-up, we would have heard about that, because Italia is not Rossiya.
The nice thing is that Ru-106 has a fairly rapid decay. Not sure how the Ru-106 was related to Ce-144 though.
Shouldn’t that now be called ukrainium?
That may be true, but maybe not everything – even the olive oil industry is – well – Sicilian-run….
Raises the question. Sorry, it’s a pet peeve.
I try to avoid the Nude Socialist. Where can I read about that accident? I assume it’s 3rd after Chernobyl and TMI.
No, the samples came from the Ural Mountains in Russia. Ruthenia covered what is now Ukraine, Belarus, and Western Russia.