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Nordic Countries Detect Elevated (but Not Harmful) Radiation Levels Around Baltic Sea

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 28 2020, @02:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the radioactive-cats-have-18-half-lives dept.

c0lo writes:

yle.fi:

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday June 29 2020, @01:52AM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 29 2020, @01:52AM (#1013938) Journal

    a puff of air grabed the particle with non existant fingers "off the ground"

    The fingers of air are quite powerful. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and dust storms all routinely pick vast quantities of such things off the ground.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 29 2020, @03:01AM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 29 2020, @03:01AM (#1013963)

    The fingers of air are quite powerful.

    My favorite is when it rains fish after a waterspout.

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday June 29 2020, @03:13AM (1 child)

      by RS3 (6367) on Monday June 29 2020, @03:13AM (#1013967)

      See! I knew you'd admit it: Spinning! Centrifugal force sucked them right up in the air and spun them dry. Harumph.

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 29 2020, @05:25PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 29 2020, @05:25PM (#1014168)

        The ones that fell on me were still plenty wet...

        Waterspouts / dust devils / tornadoes are really wild things, I believe they're a sort of manifestation of the Bernoulli principle (blowing across the end of a tube creates suction in the tube), but in a much messier 3D volume of compressible gasses in rare dynamic that support the relatively long lived phenomenon - then you can go a bunch of orders of magnitude bigger and get something related in a hurricane.

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