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French Institute Suspects Nuclear Accident in Russia or Kazakhstan in September

posted by mrpg on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the From-Russia-with-radioactive-pollution dept.

looorg writes:

According to the French nuclear safety institute IRSN there might have been a nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan in September. So far no news from the Russians.

A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in recent weeks indicates that an accident has happened in a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan in the last week of September, French nuclear safety institute IRSN said on Thursday.

The IRSN ruled out an accident in a nuclear reactor, saying it was likely to be in a nuclear fuel treatment site or center for radioactive medicine. There has been no impact on human health or the environment in Europe, the IRSN said.

[...] "Russian authorities have said they are not aware of an accident on their territory," IRSN director Jean-Marc Peres told Reuters. He added that the institute had not yet been in contact with Kazakh authorities.

This brings back flashbacks from when Chernobyl went boom in '86.

French institute suspects nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan in September

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:36PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:36PM (#596000)

    Sarcasm? because you really show know WTF you are talking about before you start panicking. Just because nuclear radiation is so easily detectable in minuscule amounts, doesn't mean that all detectable things are dangerous. It's not chemical crap where detectable thresholds are so much larger. Want a car analogy to illustrate your comments vs. reality?

    1. Scientists measure that a car moved by 1cm in France
    2. Scientists say no impact for people on Mars.
    3. People living on Mars start to panic that the car is about to crash into them.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @10:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @10:12PM (#596008)

    TFA:

    IRSN estimates that the quantity of ruthenium 106 released was major, between 100 and 300 teraBecquerels, and that if an accident of this magnitude had happened in France it would have required the evacuation or sheltering of people in a radius of a few kilometers around the accident site.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @04:26PM (#596260)
      Yeah and most of us are likely to be more than a few km away from the site.

      Anyway it seems to be beta decay stuff, so that makes me even less worried.