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Well, the big difference now is that there aren't lots of radiation from external readings, so I doubt there's a big disaster such as Chernobyl. We also have be
by cjblomqvist 7y ago
Well, the big difference now is that there aren't lots of radiation from external readings, so I doubt there's a big disaster such as Chernobyl. We also have better instruments nowadays.
Of course, different winds could mean it won't be picked up by Northern Europe like last time.
- SECProto 7y agoFor comparison, here [1] is a wiki article on a different recent radioactive release from Russia (of Ruthenium-106). International parties detected it very quickly, but it took a fair time to trace it back to it's probable source at the Mayak facility. This current event seems in some ways more serious, in other ways less, but a bit better in terms of the transparency in the Russian governmental response (they've at least acknowledged it). [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_radioactivity_increase_in_Europe_in_autumn_2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_radioactivity_increas...