IAEA reports unusual radiation in Europe
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NeverSubmit
No doubt some old lady has a jar of iodine in the attic.
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Farmboy
Possibilities:
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Antonios_M
...or the CERN experiment going wrong???
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WilliB
Stuxnet still active in Irans "peaceful" Busheer reactor?
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timeon
some KGB dude got drunk and dropped his suitcase somewhere in the Check Republic?
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Deplore
Can pockets of high radiation occur naturally?
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WilliB
Deplore:
Yes, they can. But the article talks about Iodine 131 in the atmosphere, not about some local hotspot in in the ground (of which there are many.)
Iodine 131 in the atmosphere indicates that somewhere there has been man-made nuclear fission recently, and its products got out in the open.
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nandakandamanda
Which way have the winds over Europe being blowing recently?
If the prevailing winds, then look SW of the Czech Republic to...
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nandakandamanda
Hold it a sec.
When they reported fission had been happening in no 1 reactor at Fukushima in October, Xenon was being given off, but they definitely mentioned that the one thing you might expect, ie radioactive Iodine 131, had not been detected.
One reason given was that the low temperature reactions could mean that the Iodine was solidified.
Could Iodine have been given off and gone straight up and away over the Pacific, I wonder, to be picked up in Europe? I know the IAEA say it is not from Fukushima, but they gave no reason. How can they be so sure, unless they know something we don't...?
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zichi
IAEA, or anyone else can't be sure it didn't come from Fukushima, but equally they can't eb sure it did. There are 450 nuclear reactors across the globe.
Looking at the short life of iodine-131 its more likely it didn't come from Fukushima than it did.
Probably it came from Czech Republic.
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WilliB
Well, SW of the Czech Republic there is also Armenia, which produces most of its electricity from a block of aging Tchernobyl type reactors, and further SW there is Iran, which has started up it Busheer reactor, which is an bizarre combination of old German technology, grafted together with Russian, Pakistani, and Iranian copycat components.... all based on what the engineers could cobble together, since the German team took the documentation with them when they pulled out. Both extremely iffy, and certainly bigger candidates for an accident than the Czech reactors.
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CrazyJoe
The second thing that came to mind was some of those old reactors at the Dukovany Nuclear Power Station in the Czech Republic, but I guess it's not.
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nandakandamanda
WilliB, your geography is a LITTLE off. ;8) Iran is way ESE of Europe.
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hatsoff
Well...two explosions with fatalities at a military base in Iran being reported by the BBC.
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WilliB
hatsoff:
There is no indication anywhere that the military base in Iran had anything nuclear on it though.
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WilliB
Actually, now Debka reports that Iran lost its top missile expert in explosions sparked by failed bid to fit nuclear warhead on Shahab-3 rocket.
So... yes, there was definitely nuclear material involved in the Iranian explosion. Interesting.
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