[HN Gopher] Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem In... ___________________________________________________________________ Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interested in Solving Author : 8organicbits Score : 13 points Date : 2023-08-18 22:11 UTC (48 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (zetter.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (zetter.substack.com) | jncfhnb wrote: | > The IAEA sent experts to do a radiological survey in the CEZ in | April, but their focus wasn't on determining the cause of the | spikes. Investigators instead wanted to determine if Russian | soldiers who dug trenches in a small section of the CEZ had | released dangerous levels of radiation in that area that could | have sickened the soldiers or anyone else who passed through that | area. (The IAEA determined the radiation levels from trench- | digging could not have made the soldiers ill.) Three months | later, the Ukrainian government invited Greenpeace to conduct its | own radiological survey of the areas where Russian soldiers had | camped, and they also did not look into the cause or veracity of | the February spikes. (They concluded that the radiation levels | where the soldiers camped were three times what the IAEA reported | and accused the IAEA of being untrustworthy because IAEA Deputy | Director Mikhail Chudakov, a Russian, is a long-term official | with ROSATOM, Russia's state atomic corporation.) | | Interesting. | | The article asks a lot of questions about the Russians' thinking | but I think the most likely answer is that they were just | uninformed and unorganized. It's very unlikely they had any sort | of calculated plan. They thought they were going to get all of | Ukraine in 3 days. The dumbasses digging radioactive dirt | probably didn't even know about Chernobyl to begin with. | refulgentis wrote: | Interesting until the extended meditations on "why didn't anyone | look into this more?????" -- as laid out, IAEA knew and said so | publicly, the readings were few and transitory (30m-2h), and if | there was a hack, there's 0 real evidence and it's not clear to | me it'd be worth disclosing publicly (Russia hacked nuclear | radiation in a headline for a schoolboys prank level 'hack' that | is completely unprovable) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-08-18 23:00 UTC)