The IAEA needs to be allowed to make a record of the facts. See, I find it strange the so called accident actually found it's way over Europe because the wind pattern doesn't work that way.
The wind pattern (click here) direction is completely opposite of the pattern prescribed by Russian scientists. I am quite confident President Putin would welcome an investigation by a United Nation's third party to be sure the people of Russia are not sabotaging the legitimacy their authorities.
November 21, 2017
By Tia Ghose
...Today, however, the Russian Meteorological Service said it detected "extremely high contamination" with ruthenium-106 above the southern Ural Mountains in September. In Argayash, levels of ruthenium-106 were 986 times normal levels in late September, according to Rosgidromet, the weather monitoring service.
Ruthenium-106 is a radioactive isotope of ruthenium, meaning it has a different number of neutrons than the naturally occurring form of the element. The hard, white metal is chemically similar to platinum, and can be produced by dissolving platinum in nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. Ruthenium is incredibly rare and was discovered in 1844 in the Ural Mountains, Live Science previously reported.
Ruthenium-106, however, is not found naturally, according to France's Nuclear Safety Authority. Instead, it is typically produced by the nuclear fission, or splitting, of uranium-235 atoms in nuclear reactors. Ruthenium-106 is also often produced during the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. Nuclear reprocessing involves separating the radioactive plutonium and uranium from spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power reactors, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Ruthenium-106 is also used in head and eye radiation cancer treatments, according to the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. It is also found in trace levels in satellites, as part of their thermoelectric generators, according to the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), a French institute focusing on radiological and nuclear risks....
It was the French that discovered the very real and high radioactive reading. I would expect Russia to find fact-finding agreeable to the overall outcome of these issues. There are large bodies of water involved as well.
There is a reality President Putin cannot change and it is best to address this now and protect people as best possible. I think the first step is potassium iodine (Kl) (click here). The levels are 1000 times above normal (click here). Russia really needs to connect to the global network to be sure such emergencies are found as soon as possible and information disseminated.
November 22, 2017
By James Ayre
Earlier this month, (click here) the French nuclear safety institute IRSN released data showing the existence of a “cloud” of radioactive pollution hovering over much of Europe (as of November 9th), with the speculation being that an “accident” had likely occurred at a nuclear facility located either in Russia or in Kazakhstan....
The facts at this point are really very fuzzy. A less myopic view of the wind still doesn't deliver the poison as stated by Russian scientists.
...“At the Agrayash weather station the levels were 986 times those of the previous month, while at the Novogorny station they were 440 times higher. The weather service did not rule out that the radioactive isotope could be absorbed into the atmosphere and reach Europe....
If the global community is to understand the extent the poison is distributed, even into northern Africa, there needs to be a thorough investigation by the IAEA and other agencies as needed.
...The Mayak facility has experienced past nuclear accidents. In 1957, for instance, the world's third biggest nuclear accident, called the Kyshtym disaster, exposed hundreds of thousands of people nearby to radioactive contamination. The two biggest nuclear disasters occurred at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, respectively.
Originally published on Live Science.
