{"id":22833,"date":"2017-02-19T18:51:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22833"},"modified":"2017-02-19T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T23:51:17","slug":"concerns-grow-about-a-nuclear-incident-in-europe-after-spike-in-radioactive-iodine-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22833","title":{"rendered":"Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe After Spike In Radioactive Iodine Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe <\/a><\/h3>\n
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Concerns about a potential, and so far unsubstantiated, nuclear “incident”, reportedly in the vicinity of the Arctic circle, spread in the past week after trace amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 of unknown origin were detected in January over large areas in Europe according to a\u00a0report\u00a0<\/a>by the Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, the French national public expert in nuclear and radiological risks. Since the isotope has a half-life of only eight days, the detection is an indication of a rather recent release. As the\u00a0Barents Observer adds<\/a>, “where the radioactivity is coming from is still a mystery.”<\/p>\n

The air filter station at Svanhovd – located a few hundred meters from Norway\u2019s border to Russia\u2019s Kola Peninsula in the north – was the first to measure small amounts of the radioactive Ionide-131 in the second week of January.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, the same Iodine-131 isotope was measured in Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland. Within the next two weeks, traces of radioactivity, although in tiny amounts, were measured in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Spain.<\/p>\n

Norway was the first to measure the radioactivity, but France was the first to officially inform the public about it.<\/p>\n

“Iodine-131 a radionuclide of anthropogenic origin, has recently been detected in tiny amounts in the ground-level atmosphere in Europe.\u00a0The preliminary report states it was first found during week 2 of January 2017 in northern Norway<\/strong>. Iodine-131 was also detected in Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Spain, until the end of January”, the official French Institute de Radioprotection et de S\u00fcret\u00e9 Nucl\u00e9aire (IRSN)\u00a0wrote in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0Institute de Radioprotection et de S\u00fcret\u00e9 Nucl\u00e9aire<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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No Health Concerns For Now<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mitigating some of the concerns, however, was the head of section for emergency preparedness at the Norwegian Radiation Protection Autority, Astrid Liland, who spoke to the Barents Observer and said the levels measured raise no health concerns.<\/p>\n

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Concerns Grow About A Nuclear “Incident” In Europe Concerns about a potential, and so far unsubstantiated, nuclear “incident”, reportedly in the vicinity of the Arctic circle, spread in the past week after trace amounts of radioactive Iodine-131 of unknown origin were detected in January over large areas in Europe according to a\u00a0report\u00a0by the Institute for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1018,281,2142,4318],"class_list":["post-22833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arctic","tag-europe","tag-radiation","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22834,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833\/revisions\/22834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}