Czech Republic says higher radiation not coming from them

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php


Higher than normal levels of radiation have been detected in the air in several parts of Europe - but officials said they don’t believe the public is at risk. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement Friday that “very low levels of Iodine-131” have been found in the atmosphere. The radiation has been detected in the Czech Republic and in other parts of the continent. The IAEA said the cause of the radiation is unknown, but the increase in normal levels does not appear related to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, which showered the globe in radiation in March. The EPA said Iodine-131 can get into the environment after leaking from cracked fuel rods in nuclear plants. But the radioisotope will lose much of its radiation in roughly eight days. Ingesting it in higher doses can lead to thyroid problems. The AP quoted an unnamed official, who asked for anonymity, as saying that the release of radiation seems to be continuing. The IAEA said it is
under investigation. The AP also quoted an unnamed official at the Czech State Office for Nuclear Safety, who said he was “100 percent sure” the radiation did not come from within the country. The Czechs have been planning to dramatically increase production of nuclear power. Currently, the country has six nuclear reactors that provide a total of 33% of the country’s electricity.
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[Ian David]

1. He who smelt it dealt it! n/t

[HopeHoops]

2. Thank you. That's a more eloquent way of putting it than I had planned on.

:evilgrin:

[NNN0LHI]

4. Radiation from Chernobyl was first reported outside the Soviet Union in Sweden

[madokie]

5. Anything or anyone to do with nuclear power plants

would rather lie as tell you the truth. If the truth of the dangers that we're now seeing, was in front of people when they embraced nuclear there would be no nuclear power plants on this earth today. If the truth was there at the beginning, for people to read to give a moment of thought too. The biggest boondoggle in world history is using splitting atoms to boil water to make steam to generate electricity.

The people who designed and built the plants knew the real dangers but they withheld that information from us. They are not to be trusted for one second


Maybe I shouldn't have put anyone as there surely is some who are in the know of nuclear energy who are truthful so that part, I included, is only for effect.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. "but officials said they don’t believe the public is at risk"

That sure makes me feel safe:mad: