Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out What Caused The Mysterious Radioactive Cloud That Wafted Across Europe
By Josh Davis
16 Feb 2018, 17:16
Over two months towards the end of last year, several organizations began detecting unusual levels of radioactivity billowing across much of Europe. The particles – which were rapidly assessed to be harmless to people – were tentatively traced to somewhere around the Ural Mountains, although rather worryingly no one was entirely sure of their origin, and no one was admitting to the release.
Now, a new report published this month by the French Institute of Radioprotective and Nuclear Security (IRSN), who have been trying to piece together what led to the discharge of ruthenium-106, a radioactive nucleotide that is created by splitting atoms in a reactor, and does not occur naturally, appears to come to a fairly solid conclusion.
http://www.iflscience.com/physics/the-origin-of-the-mysterious-radioactive-cloud-that-wafted-across-europe-last-year-might-have-been-identified/
