Get Ready for a New Chernobyl in Ukraine

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Get Ready for a New Chernobyl in Ukraine

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Here's a worrying write up of a seemingly inevitable problem:

https://orientalreview.org/2017/10/16/g ... n-ukraine/
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clv101 wrote:Here's a worrying write up of a seemingly inevitable problem:

https://orientalreview.org/2017/10/16/g ... n-ukraine/
No surprises there then. Having a big brain does not confer intelligence upon a species.
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I wish that I had a bunker in order to reduce the dose received.
Sooner or later one of these nukes is going to go orribly wrong.
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Seems there was recently some kind of nuclear accident and release of radioactivity, though not thought to be directly linked at a reactor.


Nuclear accident sends 'harmless' radioactive cloud over Europe
French institute says pollution suggests release of nuclear material in Russia or Kazakhstan in September
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... ver-europe
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A little update on the recent accident, but still no formal identification:

Russian nuclear facility denies it is source of high radioactivity levels

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... dent-claim
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