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Pipeline Leak Tests In EU Cause Radiation Nightmare (2017)

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5 years 4 months ago - 5 years 4 months ago #4566 by Simomax

Millions Warned At Risk After Pipeline Leak Tests In EU Cause Radiation Nightmare (February 21, 2017)

An interesting report released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Healthcare (MINZDRAV) is warning that millions of European Union (EU) citizens have been put at “grave risk” due to “botched/sloppy” natural gas pipeline leak tests performed after four devastating earthquakes hit Central Italy on 18 January, and that since that date, has left, at least, over half the continent awash in the deadly radioactive particle Iodine-131

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2244.htm

I can't vouch for the news source and looks a little sketchy to me so use discernment. It appears that we only hear about these events months or years after they actually happen. I remember the earthquakes in Italy, but don't recall anything regarding nuclear leaks/plumes around that time.
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5 years 4 months ago - 5 years 4 months ago #4581 by FSM19
https://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20170213_Detection-of-radioactive-iodine-at-trace-levels-in-Europe-in-January-2017.aspx
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Millions Warned At Risk After Pipeline Leak Tests In EU Cause Radiation Nightmare

An interesting report released in the Kremlin today by the Ministry of Healthcare (MINZDRAV) is warning that millions of European Union (EU) citizens have been put at “grave risk” due to “botched/sloppy” natural gas pipeline leak tests performed after four devastating earthquakes hit Central Italy on 18 January, and that since that date, has left, at least, over half the continent awash in the deadly radioactive particle Iodine-131.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170226084323/http://awdnews.com/top-news/millions-warned-at-risk-after-pipeline-leak-tests-in-eu-cause-radiation-nightmare

I find it interesting that they only detected Iodine-131. Had this been a nuclear reactor or weapon I would have expected traces of other radioactive particles to be found; Caesium-137, Strontium-90 etc.
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