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| cdev:
Wouldn't they censor sensors, so as not to cause devaluation of stocks and investments, etc? --- Quote from: RoGeorge on June 29, 2020, 06:50:41 pm ---It's not necessary to buy your own detector. There are many radiation level monitoring networks running for years already. Some of them are independent networks, and you can see live radiation overlapped on top of Google maps. Search for "live radiation levels map", or similar words. --- End quote --- |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on June 29, 2020, 06:12:22 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on June 29, 2020, 10:23:15 am ---Let's top off 2020 with a nuclear accident. As if Covid-19 and the associated economic disaster wasn't enough. --- End quote --- Ahem, as I was reading this reply, I was recalling that 2020 is forecast to be a heavy solar flare year... Imagine closing the year with something like the March 1989 Quebec Canada black out, times 10 and global. --- End quote --- Where did you hear that? It's not true. Solar activity is at very low levels, due to solar minimum. There's a load hype about it causing an ice age but it's BS, as solar activity hardly makes any difference to global temperatures. There's a grain of truth that it can affect the jet stream, increasing the likelihood of colder winters in Europe and parts of the US, but when that happens, other regions warm, so the net global temperature remains the same. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1285749/Solar-minimum-2020-NASA-mini-ice-age-climate-change-global-warming |
| Rick Law:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 05, 2020, 11:57:53 am --- --- Quote from: Rick Law on June 29, 2020, 06:12:22 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on June 29, 2020, 10:23:15 am ---Let's top off 2020 with a nuclear accident. As if Covid-19 and the associated economic disaster wasn't enough. --- End quote --- Ahem, as I was reading this reply, I was recalling that 2020 is forecast to be a heavy solar flare year... Imagine closing the year with something like the March 1989 Quebec Canada black out, times 10 and global. --- End quote --- Where did you hear that? It's not true. Solar activity is at very low levels, due to solar minimum. There's a load hype about it causing an ice age but it's BS, as solar activity hardly makes any difference to global temperatures. There's a grain of truth that it can affect the jet stream, increasing the likelihood of colder winters in Europe and parts of the US, but when that happens, other regions warm, so the net global temperature remains the same. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1285749/Solar-minimum-2020-NASA-mini-ice-age-climate-change-global-warming --- End quote --- I don't recall exactly, but it is probably news radio. I tune to news whenever I am driving. |
| Cerebus:
It's worth noting that the radiation release being referred to in the news recently actually happened between 28th October and 4th November 2017. The thing that's put it into the news is a recent paper in Nature Communications analysing possible sources based on environmental isotope monitoring being done (for other purposes) in Austria. Typically, the news stories do not lead with the fact that this is a nearly three year old release and folks don't bother to read to the end (if it's there at all) that this is now a historical release, not a current one. Paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16316-3. TL;DR - probably related to reprocessing of spent VVER reactor nuclear fuel at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Production Association Mayak in Ozersk, Russia (Southern Urals). |
| coppercone2:
what, the twitter is clear https://twitter.com/SinaZerbo/status/1276559857731153921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1276559857731153921%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.com%2Fmysterious-spike-radioactivity-over-northern-europe-accident-russian-nuclear-plant-3002064 The news reports Estonia, Finland and Sweden last week measured higher-than-usual levels of ruthenium and caesium isotopes and detected some other artificial radionuclides. They said nothing on their territory had happened to explain their presence, as did more than 40 other countries that volunteered information to the International Atomic Energy Agency. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/agency-north-europe-radiation-linked-reactor-71592576 https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Source-of-low-level-European-release-remains-unsol the first half of June 2020, small amounts of artificial (man-made) radioactive substances have been detected at several measuring stations in Northern Europe. The Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish radiation protection authorities have reported this on their websites. RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment has analysed the available data to determine a possible cause and source location. https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/radioactive-substances-in-the-air-over-Northern-Europe I think you confused something. RIVM owns the detector data. They even say, if you read the bottom of the article, A similar situation occurred in 2017: radioactive ruthenium-106 was found in the air in several European countries. Because many more measurements were available then, RIVM was able to locate the source more accurately. The calculated source was in excellent agreement with an existing nuclear facility that was pointed out as the most probable source in multiple international investigations. TL;DR current and old data is accurate. Attack on thread unnecessary. This is a serious issue, please double check before you come off like a kremlin troll. Think about how much bad can happen if one of these things goes off. |
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