[HN Gopher] Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem In...
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       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)
        
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       | 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)
        
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