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from the radioactive-cats-have-18-half-lives dept.
Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) said it has found small amounts of radioactive isotopes of cobalt, ruthenium and caesium in air samples collected in Helsinki between 16 and 17 June. Radiation authorities in Sweden and Norway have reported similar findings.
Pia Vesterbacka, who heads environmental radiation surveillance at STUK, said there was no cause for alarm as the detected radioactive material was too minute to pose any risk.
"The amount of radioactive particles is very small and has no impact on the environment or human health," she explained.
Samples from Finland's seven other radiation monitoring stations have yet to be analysed.
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"Investigations are still ongoing...at this point we would not want to come out and say the radiation originated in Russia," she said.
Also on Radio Free Europe, pointing to a tweet of Lassina Zerbo, the head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, tweet that shows a map of the possible source region in the 72h preceding detection.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2020, @09:30PM (3 children)
Your comment is mind-bogglingly* foolish. Not just the preamble, nor the physics cluelessness, but the "more srsly" part too.
We don't live in a lowest energy state locale. Some potential energy is in the system - eg. denser things are sometimes above less dense things, some batteries have charges, etc.
Chew on this: the Sahara (and other deserts!) give off huge clouds of sand - you know, that stuff that's so heavy that it makes up the ground in places like the Sahara - due to wind. One visible-from-space cloud of such debris is in the news right now.
Macro vortices, not micro, also contribute. Ditching your thoughtless terminology: cyclones and hurricanes can pick up heavy things like frogs, and lift them far enough up that they rain down far away.
I'd spend more time picking on what you said but it's so stupid as to not be worth the time. Go read a bit before bullshitting on SN please. Or just shut up, period. I find it hard to imagine that you're a domain expert in anything, nor that if you are, that you'd have insight that you'd be able to formulate words to share.
*Yes, literally. I can't understand how someone could write what you did honestly. So I can only assume you're a troll, here to muddy the discussion with garbage. I definitely wasted 30s trying to figure out wtf you could mean if you were not trolling, and then another - looks like >1m, 2m so far - writing this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @06:11AM (1 child)
You want know something funny about that dust cloud?
Dust from Northern Africa is the major source of nutrient minerals for the Amazon rainforest canopy. Without occasional Sahara dust storms the Amazon jungle dies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @07:00AM
What jungle? It's already a walking corpse.
https://www.npr.org/2015/11/05/453239276/in-the-amazons-fire-season-you-either-burn-or-you-starve [npr.org]
Buy Brazilian meat. It's $0.10/lb.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @08:54AM
maybe GP was simply drunk or high?