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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2020, @08:24AM (1 child)
Or ya know, the guy actually believed what he wrote was correct and instead views people calling him a troll as some sort of cognitive dissonance thing. What he said was technically incorrect, but involved a whole heck of a lot more thought than most people put into most topics now a days. This is the sort of place Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org] would actually make good sense, and something we should probably consider more often. If people interpreted each other less antagonistically (and simultaneously interpreted corporate or political behaviors *more* antagonistically) the world would be a vastly better place since we'd probably be at a much closer approximation of reality.
Instead we have all messed up and backwards. We label each other all sorts of nasty things for misunderstandings (or different opinions) while simultaneously apologizing for the worst of corporate or political behavior as non-malicious so long as there is some form of plausible deniability available - which there always will be.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday June 29 2020, @09:26PM
IMHO, of course, one of the better posts ever.
There are serious conspiracy theorists (maybe realists?) who would tell you we're all pawns in a very complex game. A big part of the game is to keep us fighting, including labeling each other "troll" (completely bastardizing the definition of "troll") when we simply disagree or have a different perspective. One of the many ways to appease us is an occasional referendum on the voting ballot. Makes us feel like we're actually deciding something.
Okay, back to finger paints and basket weaving I go... :)