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Radiation levels are popping off around Chernobyl

11 points by caaqil 5y ago

smt88 5y ago
Russia wants Chernobyl for strategic reasons, not because the reactors are useful to them[1]. It seems that shelling may be dispersing radioactive material[2]. 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-take-chernobyl-rcna17615 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-t... 2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/chernobyl-nuclear-plant-targeted-as-russia-invades-ukraine https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/chernobyl-nuclear-p...
ajuc 5y ago
65500 is not that much all things considered, but it's suspiciously close to 65535 (maximum 16-bit integer).
- aosmith 5y ago
  That would be a bit of irony, the same thing happened with analog dosimeters after the initial accident.
Rebelgecko 5y ago
The EU people who track this don't seem to have a corresponding increase on their radiation map. Since it seems like rhe SaveEcoBot radiation map didn't exist before last week, it's a bit sus
simne 5y ago
Looks like information war. Russians does not have enough military to win war with Ukraine, so trying to convince Ukrainians, that something terrible happen. And sure, for this they captured Chernobyl site and cut communications, so now could simulate anything. At the moment, those attacks have only one real win - mobile networks where overloaded, so become unusable, and nothing more.
- rurban 5y ago
  They have 100.000 soldiers at the borders, 5x more than the Ukranians 20.000. But you are right, even with 5x more soldiers, you cannot suppress such a huge country which already tasted democracy and already ousted their corrupt Russian shill president. With mass strikes you can easily get rid of them. Even if they keep their tanks there. This will be Putin's biggest mistake. Chernobyl is only for the press, I think. Could be hacker attack into their sensor network. Or they really stirred up the containment. But what Russian soldier would do that?
  - simne 5y ago
    New information arrive every few minutes. Russians made war trick - they just move large military forces through Chernobyl zone, because nobody believe they will. And defenders of Chernobyl zone tried to stop invade, so there were battles. And territory very large and on most even nobody care about pollution, just prohibited entry. So battle/explosions/fires, rise large amounts of polluted dust, and sensors register that. At the moment zone occupied by Russians, and communications cut, so no more info from there.

11 points by caaqil 5y ago

Russia wants Chernobyl for strategic reasons, not because the reactors are useful to them[1]. It seems that shelling may be dispersing radioactive material[2]. 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-take-chernobyl-rcna17615 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-t... 2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/chernobyl-nuclear-plant-targeted-as-russia-invades-ukraine https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/chernobyl-nuclear-p...

ajuc 5y ago

65500 is not that much all things considered, but it's suspiciously close to 65535 (maximum 16-bit integer).

aosmith 5y ago
That would be a bit of irony, the same thing happened with analog dosimeters after the initial accident.

Rebelgecko 5y ago

The EU people who track this don't seem to have a corresponding increase on their radiation map. Since it seems like rhe SaveEcoBot radiation map didn't exist before last week, it's a bit sus

simne 5y ago

Looks like information war. Russians does not have enough military to win war with Ukraine, so trying to convince Ukrainians, that something terrible happen. And sure, for this they captured Chernobyl site and cut communications, so now could simulate anything. At the moment, those attacks have only one real win - mobile networks where overloaded, so become unusable, and nothing more.

rurban 5y ago
They have 100.000 soldiers at the borders, 5x more than the Ukranians 20.000. But you are right, even with 5x more soldiers, you cannot suppress such a huge country which already tasted democracy and already ousted their corrupt Russian shill president. With mass strikes you can easily get rid of them. Even if they keep their tanks there. This will be Putin's biggest mistake. Chernobyl is only for the press, I think. Could be hacker attack into their sensor network. Or they really stirred up the containment. But what Russian soldier would do that?
- simne 5y ago
  New information arrive every few minutes. Russians made war trick - they just move large military forces through Chernobyl zone, because nobody believe they will. And defenders of Chernobyl zone tried to stop invade, so there were battles. And territory very large and on most even nobody care about pollution, just prohibited entry. So battle/explosions/fires, rise large amounts of polluted dust, and sensors register that. At the moment zone occupied by Russians, and communications cut, so no more info from there.