{"id":47820,"date":"2019-08-16T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47820"},"modified":"2019-08-16T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:46:13","slug":"norway-detects-radiation-near-russian-border-days-after-nuclear-powered-missile-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47820","title":{"rendered":"Norway Detects Radiation Near Russian Border Days After Nuclear-Powered Missile Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-15\/norway-detects-radiation-near-russian-border-days-after-nuclear-powered-missile\">Norway Detects Radiation Near Russian Border Days After Nuclear-Powered Missile Explodes<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Days after the Kremlin&#8217;s nuclear-powered missile exploded, killing seven and leading to evacuations,&nbsp;Norway detected tiny amounts of radioactive iodine in the air near the northern part of the country bordering Russia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Norway&#8217;s nuclear safety authority (DSA), the radioactive iodine was detected between Aug. 9-12 at its air filter station in the border town of Svanhovd, just under 450 miles from the Arkhangelesk region of northern Russia where the deadly blast occurred on August 8.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/svanhovd%20arkh.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<strong>At present it is not possible to determine if the last iodine detection is linked to the accident in Arkhangelsk last week<\/strong>. DSA continues more frequent sampling and analysis,&#8221; said DSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rosatom, Russia&#8217;s state nuclear agency, said on Saturday that the deadly blast involved &#8220;isotope power sources,&#8221; with no further details given.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-blast-norway\/norway-detects-radioactive-iodine-by-russian-border-days-after-blast-idUSKCN1V510N\"><em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>, detecting radiation is not unusual in Norway, as it&#8217;s monitoring stations routinely pick up radioactive iodine around half-a-dozen times per year from unknown sources.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, however, Russia&#8217;s state weather service reported a 16x spike in radiation levels in the city of Severodvinsk. Meanwhile,&nbsp;<strong>first responders who treated victims of the accident were rushed to Moscow for medical examination<\/strong>&nbsp;according to Russian state-owned news outlet TASS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norway Detects Radiation Near Russian Border Days After Nuclear-Powered Missile Explodes Days after the Kremlin&#8217;s nuclear-powered missile exploded, killing seven and leading to evacuations,&nbsp;Norway detected tiny amounts of radioactive iodine in the air near the northern part of the country bordering Russia.&nbsp; According to Norway&#8217;s nuclear safety authority (DSA), the radioactive iodine was detected between [&hellip;]<\/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":[1241,2142,26538],"class_list":["post-47820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-norway","tag-radiation","tag-radioactive-iodine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47820","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=47820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47821,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47820\/revisions\/47821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}