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Russia has just confirmed that they too have detected it, previously they denied they have detected anything > The highest concentration was registered at the
by 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 agoNote Ru-106 has a half-life longer than a year (373 days) so it's not going any where quickly except the ground water.