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This is nonsense fear mongering. It didn't "just wake up" in any sense, the reactivity has been monitored for years and did rise slightly after 2017-2019 as the
by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
This is nonsense fear mongering. It didn't "just wake up" in any sense, the reactivity has been monitored for years and did rise slightly after 2017-2019 as the New Safe Confinement reduced the amount of rain getting into the structure.
Here's a Reuters link of the same damn thing from six months ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/chernobyl-staff-record-rise-nuclear-activity-within-safe-limits-2021-05-12/ https://www.reuters.com/world/chernobyl-staff-record-rise-nu...
The journal article they refer to was from work done in 2020. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ta/d0ta09131f https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/ta/d0ta0...
Work done to better understand the decay process going on in the post-meltdown structure is interesting, but none of it notes any real risk of significant criticality in the remnants of the core.
- nindalf 5y agoI figured it would be fear lingering when the link was from a site I’d never heard of. If some imminent disaster was on the cards id expect to hear about it from Reuters or AP.
- tasubotadas 5y ago>Scientists don’t understand why… They know exactly why - in the Reuters article they say it's because of the lost moisture from the rain (there is now shelter above the reactor) and that it was expected :D What a piece of journalistic crap...