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And there is a large new release of Ru-106 somewhere in Russia... what's going on? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioactivity-986-times

by kurthr 9y ago

And there is a large new release of Ru-106 somewhere in Russia... what's going on? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioactivity-986-times-norm-nuclear-accident-claim https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioac... Posted on its own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15746240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15746240

mikkom 9y ago
Russia has just confirmed that they too have detected it, previously they denied they have detected anything > The highest concentration was registered at the station in Argayash, a village in the Chelyabinsk region in the southern Urals, which had "extremely high pollution" of Ru-106, exceeding natural background pollution by 986 times, the service said. > It did not point to any specific source of the pollution, but the Argayash station is about 30 kilometres from the Mayak nuclear facility, which in 1957 was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-russia-extremely-high-radioactive-pollution.html https://phys.org/news/2017-11-russia-extremely-high-radioact...
- kurthr 9y ago
  Note Ru-106 has a half-life longer than a year (373 days) so it's not going any where quickly except the ground water.
myth_drannon 9y ago
I was reading a speculation that there was a run of new nuclear waste processing tech in Mayk factory just two days before the they started to register the high readings. So it's possible they had an accident there. I will try to find the blog post but any news can be regarded as disinformation from both sides.
- myth_drannon 9y ago
  That's the blog post in Russian(Google Translate ), the guy has quite a large readership (top20 in Russian blogosphere), topics mostly on nuclear stations, not a crackpot. Still it's just a speculation : https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmaxim-nm.livejournal.com%2F370875.html&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...

by kurthr 9y ago

mikkom 9y ago

Russia has just confirmed that they too have detected it, previously they denied they have detected anything > The highest concentration was registered at the station in Argayash, a village in the Chelyabinsk region in the southern Urals, which had "extremely high pollution" of Ru-106, exceeding natural background pollution by 986 times, the service said. > It did not point to any specific source of the pollution, but the Argayash station is about 30 kilometres from the Mayak nuclear facility, which in 1957 was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-russia-extremely-high-radioactive-pollution.html https://phys.org/news/2017-11-russia-extremely-high-radioact...

kurthr 9y ago
Note Ru-106 has a half-life longer than a year (373 days) so it's not going any where quickly except the ground water.

myth_drannon 9y ago

I was reading a speculation that there was a run of new nuclear waste processing tech in Mayk factory just two days before the they started to register the high readings. So it's possible they had an accident there. I will try to find the blog post but any news can be regarded as disinformation from both sides.

myth_drannon 9y ago
That's the blog post in Russian(Google Translate ), the guy has quite a large readership (top20 in Russian blogosphere), topics mostly on nuclear stations, not a crackpot. Still it's just a speculation : https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fmaxim-nm.livejournal.com%2F370875.html&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev...